Roche
Roche is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle. Roche has about 1,410 residents.Photo: Berger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,410 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Roche VD” and “Roche, Vaud”
- Postal code: 1852
Places of Interest
Highlights include Roche VD railway station and Les Agites.
Roche VD railway station
Railway station
Photo: Remontees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Roche VD railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Roche, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Simplon line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Les Agites
Mountain saddle
Les Agites is a high mountain pass in the Alps in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It connects Yvorne and La Lécherette. The south side of the pass road lies in the Rhone valley.
Castle of the Porte du Scex
Castle
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of the Porte du Scex is situated 3½ km west of Roche.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rennaz and Corbeyrier.
Rennaz
Village
Rennaz is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle.
Corbeyrier
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Corbeyrier is a municipality in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Aigle. It became a municipality in 1718. Corbeyrier is situated 2½ km southeast of Roche.
Chessel
Village
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chessel is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle. Chessel is situated 3 km southwest of Roche.
Roche
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Roche (VD), Aigle District, Vaud, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.36106° or 46° 21′ 40″ northLongitude
6.93093° or 6° 55′ 51″ eastPopulation
1,410Elevation
398 metres (1,306 feet)Open location code
8FR89W6J+C9OpenStreetMap ID
node 240033150OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2659003Wikidata ID
Q70224
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arpitan to Welsh—“Roche” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “Roche”
- Basque: “Roche (VD)”
- Basque: “Roche”
- Breton: “Roche”
- Catalan: “Roche”
- Cebuano: “Roche, Vaud”
- Cebuano: “Roche”
- Chinese: “罗什”
- Czech: “Roche”
- Dutch: “Roche”
- Esperanto: “Roche VD”
- Esperanto: “Roche”
- French: “Roche”
- German: “Roche VD”
- German: “Roche”
- German: “Rochiz”
- Hungarian: “Roche”
- Irish: “Roche”
- Italian: “Roche”
- Korean: “로슈”
- Lombard: “Roche”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Roche”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roche i Vaud”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Roche”
- Polish: “Roche”
- Portuguese: “Roche”
- Romanian: “Roche, Elveția”
- Romanian: “Roche”
- Romansh: “Roche”
- Russian: “Рош”
- Spanish: “Roche”
- Swedish: “Roche, Vaud”
- Swedish: “Roche”
- Swiss German: “Roche VD”
- Tosk Albanian: “Roche VD”
- Turkish: “Roche”
- Ukrainian: “Рош”
- Upper Sorbian: “Roche”
- Venetian: “Roche (Svizzera)”
- Venetian: “Roche”
- Vietnamese: “Roche”
- Volapük: “Roche”
- Waray (Philippines): “Roche VD”
- Welsh: “Roche”
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