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Bournens

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Bournens

Total population

518

Coordinates46.60°, 6.56°

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City facts

Overview

Bournens is a municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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History & geography

History

Bournens is first mentioned in 1184 as Brunens.

Geography

Bournens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 74.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 16.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 1.5% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.6%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 65.6% is used for growing crops and 7.4% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops.

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Geography

Latitude
46.6042
Longitude
6.5633
Water area
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Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

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Wildlife & biodiversity

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Geography & sun

Avg solar (kWh/m²/day)
3.59
Annual solar (kWh/m²)
1,309

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

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Public attention

Wikipedia views (last 30 days)
9
Avg daily Wikipedia views
0
Attention level
Obscure

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Official Identifiers

BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office

BFS-Nr
5472
Population (Wikidata)
402
Wikidata
Q52276

Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771

Sources

  • • Wikipedia
  • • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
  • • Wikipedia Pageviews API
  • • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771