Echandens

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Echandens

Total population

2,235

Coordinates46.53°, 6.54°

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

Overview

Échandens is a municipality in the district of Morges of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

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)

François-Louis de Pesmes de Saint-Saphorin

Genevan soldier and diplomat

Eugene Chaplin

Swiss recording engineer

G

George de Mestral

Swiss engineer, inventor of the velcro system (1907-1990)

Marc-Emile Ruchet

member of the Swiss Federal Council (1853-1912)

R

Rene Mercet

Swiss football referee (1898-1961)

H

Henri Jaccard

Swiss botanist (1844-1922)

C

Charles Marc Secretan

Swiss politician (1773-1842)

Claude Bonnard

Swiss politician (1922-1994)

F

François Louis von Chappuis

(1751-1830)

F

Fritz Zbinden

cyclist (1922-1983)

J

Johann Heinrich Emanuel Mousson

Swiss politician (1803-1869)

Pierre Chappuis

Swiss physicist (1855-1916)

S

Stéphane Bovon

Swiss comics artist

Alexandre Burger

Swiss journalist (1920-2009)

A

Alexandre Schenk

Swiss curator (1874-1910)

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

Nearby places in Vaud

• Denges
  0.7 mi away · pop. 1,631
• Lonay
  1.1 mi away · pop. 2,490
• Ecublens VD
  1.2 mi away · pop. 13,364
• Préverenges
  1.3 mi away · pop. 5,190
• Bussigny
  1.3 mi away · pop. 8,132
• Bremblens
  1.4 mi away · pop. 487
• Chavannes-près-Renens
  1.6 mi away · pop. 9,774
• St-Sulpice VD
  1.9 mi away · pop. 3,378
• Romanel-sur-Morges
  2.1 mi away · pop. 478
• Échichens
  2.1 mi away · pop. 2,550
• Crissier
  2.2 mi away · pop. 7,316
• Renens VD
  2.5 mi away · pop. 21,408

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.

Recently spotted species

Bank Vole

Clethrionomys glareolus

Seen 2026-10-16

common yarrow

Achillea millefolium

Seen 2026-10-16

Green-brindled Crescent

Allophyes oxyacanthae

Seen 2026-10-15

Vespa velutina nigrithorax

Vespa velutina nigrithorax

Seen 2026-10-15

Barred Sallow

Tiliacea aurago

Seen 2026-10-15

Eurasian Hummingbird Hawkmoth

Macroglossum stellatarum

Seen 2026-10-14

16-spot Ladybird

Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata

Seen 2026-10-14

Eurasian Green Woodpecker

Picus viridis

Seen 2026-10-14

Jack Snipe

Lymnocryptes minimus

Seen 2026-10-13

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers