Assens

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Assens

Total population

1,703

Coordinates46.61°, 6.62°

Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Assens is a village and municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipality includes the villages of Bioley-Orjulaz, Malapalud and Assens.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Marcel Pilet-Golaz

member of the Swiss Federal Council (1889-1958)

Eugene Chaplin

Swiss recording engineer

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François Louis von Chappuis

(1751-1830)

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Stéphane Bovon

Swiss comics artist

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Alexandre Schenk

Swiss curator (1874-1910)

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Alexis Mamboury

Swiss pastor and almoner (1886-1925)

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Alexis de Loës

Swiss pastor (1840-1907)

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Aloys Bataillard

Swiss writer and poet (1906-1956)

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Ami Campiche

Swiss politician (1846-1911)

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André Schmid

Swiss photographer (1836-1914)

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Arnold Bonard

Swiss journalist (1860-1944)

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Arthur Mermod

Swiss physician (1852-1915)

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Auguste Gaillard

Swiss politician (1863-1932)

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Charles-Eugène Fonjallaz

Swiss politician (1853-1917)

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Charles-Louis Rochat

Swiss politician

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Charles Hautier

Swiss aviator (1896-1946)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Vaud

• Etagnières
  1 mi away · pop. 1,106
• Malapalud
  1.1 mi away · pop. 92
• Bioley-Orjulaz
  1.3 mi away · pop. 458
• Bretigny-sur-Morrens
  1.4 mi away · pop. 894
• Morrens VD
  1.6 mi away · pop. 888
• Echallens
  1.8 mi away · pop. 6,572
• Bottens
  1.8 mi away · pop. 917
• Boussens
  1.9 mi away · pop. 743
• Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne
  2 mi away · pop. 2,939
• Cugy VD
  2.1 mi away · pop. 2,705
• Bettens
  2.4 mi away · pop. 529
• Bournens
  2.9 mi away · pop. 518

Browse all places in Vaud →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Assens

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers