Mézières VD

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Mézières VD

Total population

1,193

Coordinates46.60°, 6.77°

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

Overview

Mézières is a former municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2016, the former municipalities of Mézières, Carrouge, and Ferlens merged into the new municipality of Jorat-Mézières.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

Daniel Peter

Swiss businessman (1836-1919)

Eric Voruz

Swiss politician

Henri Rieben

Swiss university teacher, writer and economist (1921-2006)

Philippe Jaccottet

Swiss poet (1925-2021)

Eugène Burnand

Swiss artist (1850-1921)

Daniel Atienza

road bicycle racer

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Paul Demiéville

Swiss university teacher (1855-1947)

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Pierre Isaac Joly

Swiss politician (1818-1901)

Placide Nicod

Swiss university teacher (1876-1953)

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Jean Tschabold

gymnast (1925-2012)

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Vincent Braillard

Swiss motorcycle racer

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Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

Swiss painter (1748-1810)

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Daniel Moziman

French pastor

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Jacques Samuel Blanchet

Swiss businessman and botanist (1807-1875)

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Jane Savigny

Swiss actress (1912-2001)

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Lucy Dutoit

Swiss teacher (1868-1937)

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

Nearby places in Vaud

• Carrouge
  0.6 mi away · pop. 1,111
• Ferlens VD
  0.9 mi away · pop. 331
• Servion
  1.5 mi away · pop. 2,078
• Ropraz
  1.6 mi away · pop. 373
• Corcelles-le-Jorat
  1.6 mi away · pop. 412
• Montpreveyres
  1.7 mi away · pop. 535
• Vucherens
  2 mi away · pop. 534
• Vulliens
  2.1 mi away · pop. 438
• Vuibroye
  2.3 mi away · pop. 120
• Mollie-Margot
  2.9 mi away
• Châtillens
  2.9 mi away · pop. 365
• Oron-la-Ville
  3.2 mi away · pop. 1,224

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.