Liestal
Liestal is an industrial town with a cobbled-street Old Town in Switzerland, not far from Basel. It is the capital of the Basel-Landschaft canton, and was home to about 14,000 people in 2018.
- Type: Town with 13,800 residents
- Description: town in, and capital of, the Swiss canton of Basel-Country
- Also known as: “CH2829”, “Liestal BL”, “Liesthal”, “Liztal”, “Lystalis”, and “Лизтал”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Liestal railway station and Cantonal library of the Basel-Landschaft.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lausen and Frenkendorf.
Lausen
Village
Liestal
Latitude
47.484° or 47° 29′ 2″ north
Longitude
7.7348° or 7° 44′ 5″ east
Population
13,800
Elevation
342 metres (1,122 feet)
Open location code
8FV9FPMM+HW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Liestal” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Liestal”
- Arabic: “ليستل”
- Aragonese: “Liestal”
- Armenian: “Լիստալ”
- Asturian: “Liestal”
- Azerbaijani: “Listal”
- Basque: “Liestal”
- Belarusian: “Лісталь”
- Breton: “Liestal”
- Catalan: “Liestal”
- Cebuano: “Liestal (kapital sa kanton)”
- Cebuano: “Liestal”
- Chechen: “Листаль”
- Chinese: “利斯塔尔”
- Chinese: “利斯塔爾”
- Croatian: “Liestal”
- Czech: “Liestal”
- Danish: “Liestal”
- Dutch: “Liestal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليستل”
- Esperanto: “Liestal”
- Finnish: “Liestal”
- French: “Liestal”
- Georgian: “ლისტალი”
- German: “Liestal”
- Greek: “Λίσταλ”
- Hebrew: “ליאשטל”
- Hungarian: “Liestal”
- Indonesian: “Liestal”
- Interlingue: “Liestal”
- Irish: “Liestal”
- Italian: “Liestal”
- Japanese: “リースタル”
- Kazakh: “Листаль”
- Korean: “리슈탈”
- Korean: “리스탈”
- Kurdish: “Liestal”
- Latin: “Laucostabulum”
- Latvian: “Līstāle”
- Lingala: “Liestalé”
- Lithuanian: “Listalis”
- Lombard: “Liestal”
- Luxembourgish: “Liestal”
- Malay: “Liestal”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Liestal”
- Northern Frisian: “Liestal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Liestal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Liestal”
- Norwegian: “Liestal”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Liestal”
- Persian: “لستل”
- Piemontese: “Liestal”
- Polish: “Liestal”
- Portuguese: “Liestal”
- Romanian: “Liestal”
- Romansh: “Liestal”
- Russian: “Листаль”
- Scots: “Liestal”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Liestal”
- Serbian: “Листал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Liestal”
- Silesian: “Liestal”
- Slovak: “Liestal”
- Spanish: “Liestal”
- Swedish: “Liestal”
- Swiss German: “Lieschtel”
- Swiss German: “Liestal”
- Thai: “ลีสทาล”
- Turkish: “Liestal”
- Ukrainian: “Лісталь”
- Upper Sorbian: “Liestal”
- Urdu: “لیستال”
- Uzbek: “Liestal”
- Venetian: “Liestal”
- Volapük: “Liestal”
- Waray (Philippines): “Liestal”
- Welsh: “Liestal”
- Western Panjabi: “لیزٹال”
- Wu Chinese: “利斯塔尔”
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Places to explore: Emma Herwegh-Platz and Pfauenhof.
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