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The canton of Vaud is divided into 10 districts.
Several districts have been merged.
Some districts have been divided into cercles , e.g. Yverdon District was divided into the cercles of Molondin, Belmont-sur-Yverdon, Yverdon and Champvent.
There are ca. 400 municipalities in Vaud.
The Canton of Vaud is divided into 10 districts:
The canton of Vaud is the third largest of the Swiss cantons by population and fourth by size. It is located in Romandy, the French-speaking western part of the country; and borders the canton of Neuchâtel to the north, the cantons of Fribourg and Bern to the east, Valais and Lake Geneva to the south, the canton of Geneva to the south-west and France to the west.
On 26 June 1964, Swiss Post introduced postal codes as the third country after Germany (1941) and the United States (1963).
There are 309 municipalities in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland,. Vaud is the canton with the 2nd most municipalities.
In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. Therefore, there exists a variety of structures and terminology for the subnational entities between canton and municipality, loosely termed districts.
Pays-d'Enhaut District is a district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district is the town of Château-d'Œx.
Lavaux District was a district located on the north-eastern shore of Lake Geneva in the Swiss-romand canton of Vaud between Lausanne and Vevey. The capital of the district was Cully, but used to be Lutry. The district is part of the World Heritage Site listed region of Lavaux. It consisted of the following municipalities:
Échallens is a municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Léman was the name of a canton of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803, corresponding to the territory of modern Vaud. A former subject territory of Bern, Vaud had been independent for only four months in 1798 as the Lemanic Republic before it was incorporated into the centralist Helvetic Republic. Léman comprised all of the territory of Vaud detached from Bernese occupation, apart from the Avenches and the Payerne which, after 16 October 1802, were annexed by the canton of Fribourg until the Napoleonic Act of Mediation the following year, when they were restored to the newly established and newly sovereign canton of Vaud.
Jacques of Savoy was Count of Romont and Lord of Vaud.
Manor AG is a Swiss department store chain with its headquarters in Basel. It is owned by Maus Frères of Geneva, and is Switzerland’s largest department-store chain. It generated total sales of CHF 3 billion in 2013.
Rivera-Pays-d'-Enhaut District is a district in Vaud canton.
The West Switzerland Company was a railway company in Switzerland, formed 1854 and absorbed into the Western Swiss Railway in 1872. The OS built a railway network in western Switzerland and connected with France via Geneva in 1858, although Switzerland's first railway was the French Strasbourg–Basel Railway, which connected Basel with Strasbourg, France in 1844.
The Gros-de-Vaud is an area of the Swiss canton of Vaud.
The Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Vaud is a Reformed cantonal state church in Vaud.
Morges railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Morges, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways and the eastern terminus of the 1,000 mm gauge Bière–Apples–Morges line of Transports de la région Morges-Bière-Cossonay (MBC).
Allaman railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Allaman, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Rolle railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Rolle, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Gland railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Gland, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Nyon railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Nyon, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways and the southern terminus of the 1,000 mm gauge Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez line of the Chemin de fer Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez.
Coppet railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Coppet, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways.
