Map - Liestal District (Bezirk Liestal)

Liestal District is one of the five districts of the largely German-speaking canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland. The city of Liestal serves as capital of both the district of Liestal and the canton of Basel-Country. It has a population of (as of ).

Liestal district has an area,, of 85.83 km2. Of this area, 29.07 km2 or 33.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 37.08 km2 or 43.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 18.89 km2 or 22.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.68 km2 or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes and 0.13 km2 or 0.2% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 10.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.7%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.2% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 41.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 13.9% is used for growing crops and 16.6% is pastures, while 3.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.