Balsthal

Balsthal has an area, as of 2009, of 15.71 square kilometers . Of this area, 4.62 km2 or 29.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 8.53 km2 or 54.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.26 km2 or 14.4% is settled , 0.1 km2 or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and 0.18 km2 or 1.1% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 7.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.6%. Out of the forested land, 53.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 6.4% is used for growing crops and 19.7% is pastures and 2.7% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.

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