Buus is a municipality in the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. History Buus is first mentioned in 1273 as Bus. Geography Buus has an area, , of . Of this area, or 64.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 28.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.2% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.5%. Out of the forested land, 26.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 25.5% is used for growing crops and 30.8% is pastures, while 8.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality is located in the Sissach district, in a depression on the north foot of Farnsberg mountain. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Buus. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Vine Vert fructed Azure entwined around a Rod Gules attached by two rings Or issuant from a Base Sable. Demographics Buus has a population () of . , 7.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 9.5%. Most of the population () speaks German (876 or 96.4%), with Albanian being second most common (15 or 1.7%) and English being third (4 or 0.4%). There is 1 person who speaks French, while no one speaks Romansh. , the gender distribution of the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female. The population was made up of 876 Swiss citizens (92.2% of the population), and 74 non-Swiss residents (7.8%) Of the population in the municipality 395 or about 43.5% were born in Buus and lived there in 2000. There were 185 or 20.4% who were born in the same canton, while 250 or 27.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 73 or 8.0% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and were 6 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 2 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss man and 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the