Swiss Towns / Episode 61

Ormalingen

13 October 2026 · Basel-Landschaft

What happened in this episode?

In episode 61, Ormalingen was selected by the wheel and eliminated from the Swiss Towns series. The municipality finished in place 2'050 out of 2'110 participants. After this spin, 2'049 municipalities remained in the race.

Municipality profile

Ormalingen lies in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. It has 2'420 permanent residents and covers 6.93 km², which corresponds to around 349 residents per km².

Normandingen became Ormalingen.

The village first appears in 1286 as Normandingen. Over the centuries, the initial N was absorbed into phrases such as ‘in Normandingen’.

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