Sévaz

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Sévaz

Total population

293

Elevation489 m

Land area2.46 km²

Coordinates46.84°, 6.87°

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

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Sévaz is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

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

Notable people from here

D

Daniel de Montmollin

Swiss ceramist and monk (1921-)

G

Gabriel Bullet

Swiss bishop (1921-2011)

Jean-Claude Périsset

Swiss Roman Catholic archbishop

F

Frédéric Chassot

Swiss footballer

L

Louis-Samuel Roulet

Swiss politician (1877-1955)

Valentine Friedli

Swiss politician (1929-2016)

Alfred Chassot

Swiss politician (1846-1910)

A

Anne-Marie Jaccottet

Swiss painter and illustrator

F

Frédéric Rougemont

Swiss historian (1808-1876)

Georges Ducotterd

Swiss politician (1902-1979)

H

Humbert de Savoie

J

Jacqueline Thévoz

Swiss writer and journalist (1926-2021)

Jules Bovet

Swiss jurist and politician (1887-1971)

M

Michel Moret

Swiss writer, bookseller and publisher

Raphaël Rimaz

Swiss politician (1943-2017)

Victor Buchs

Swiss politician (1866-1953)

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

Nearby places in Fribourg

• Bussy FR
  0.7 mi away · pop. 496
• Lully
  1.5 mi away · pop. 692
• Cugy FR
  1.8 mi away · pop. 1,117
• Châtillon FR
  2.2 mi away · pop. 408
• Bollion
  2.7 mi away
• Mannens
  5.4 mi away
• Villeneuve FR
  6.2 mi away · pop. 374
• La Brillaz
  8.4 mi away · pop. 1,285
• Nierlet-les-Bois
  8.6 mi away
• Chénens
  9 mi away · pop. 852
• Villaz-St-Pierre
  9 mi away
• Billens
  10.3 mi away · pop. 621

Browse all places in Fribourg →

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

Fencepost jumping spider

Marpissa muscosa

Seen 2026-09-17

Common Spitting Spider

Scytodes thoracica

Seen 2026-09-16

Mute Swan

Cygnus olor

Seen 2026-09-15

guelder-rose

Viburnum opulus

Seen 2026-09-15

common hops

Humulus lupulus

Seen 2026-09-15

Eurasian Hummingbird Hawkmoth

Macroglossum stellatarum

Seen 2026-09-14

Southern Green Stink Bug

Nezara viridula

Seen 2026-09-14

Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos

Seen 2026-09-14

European Goldfinch

Carduelis carduelis

Seen 2026-09-13

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

Official Identifiers