page_title: Sins, Aargau
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Sins, Aargau / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Local train type NPZ between Sins and Mühlau Deutsch: Regionalzug des Typs NPZ zwischen Sins und Mühlau
context_page_description: Sins is a municipality in the district of Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Sins has an area, as of 2009, of 20.3 square kilometers (7.8 sq mi).  Of this area, 14.64 km² (5.65 sq mi) or 72.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.54 km² (1.37 sq mi) or 17.4% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 1.95 km² (0.75 sq mi) or 9.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.1 km² (25 acres) or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.0% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 4.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%.  Out of the forested land, 16.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 45.3% is used for growing crops and 24.8% is pastures, while 2.0% is used for orchards or vine crops.  All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
caption: Local train between Sins and Mühlau
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