Gland
Gland is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The city also is home to the IUCN and WWF headquarters.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 11,900 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Gland (Vaud)”, “Gland VD”, and “Gland, Switzerland”
- Postal code: 1196
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gland railway station and La Côte Airfield.
Gland railway station
Railway station
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
La Côte Airfield
Aerodrome
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The La Côte Airfield is a private airfield in Prangins, Switzerland. It hosted a fly-in in 2009, 2011, 2013, on August 15, 2015 and in 2019.
Luins Castle
Castle
Photo: EdouardHue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Luins Castle is a castle in the municipality of Luins of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. It was purchased by James-Alexandre de Pourtalès in 1809.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vich and Luins.
Luins
Village
Photo: EdouardHue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Luins is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Coinsins
Village
Photo: Barthélemy Menn, Public domain.
Coinsins is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Gland
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Gland, Nyon District, Vaud, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.42394° or 46° 25′ 26″ northLongitude
6.26551° or 6° 15′ 56″ eastPopulation
11,900Elevation
416 metres (1,365 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH GADOpen location code
8FR8C7F8+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 1932397580OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Gland” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غلاند”
- Armenian: “Գլան (Շվեյցարիա)”
- Armenian: “Գլան”
- Basque: “Gland”
- Belarusian: “Глан”
- Belarusian: “Глян”
- Breton: “Gland”
- Catalan: “Gland”
- Cebuano: “Gland (lungsod sa Swisa, Canton de Vaud, Nyon District, lat 46,42, long 6,27)”
- Cebuano: “Gland”
- Chinese: “Gland, Vaud”
- Chinese: “格朗”
- Czech: “Gland”
- Danish: “Gland”
- Dutch: “Gland”
- Esperanto: “Gland VD”
- Finnish: “Gland”
- French: “Gland”
- French: “Glandois”
- German: “Gland VD”
- German: “Gland”
- German: “La Dullive”
- German: “La Lignière”
- Hungarian: “Gland”
- Icelandic: “Gland”
- Indonesian: “Gland, Swiss”
- Indonesian: “Gland”
- Irish: “Gland, An Eilvéis”
- Italian: “Gland”
- Japanese: “グラン”
- Korean: “글랑”
- Kurdish: “Gland, Swîsre”
- Lithuanian: “Glandas”
- Lombard: “Gland”
- Luxembourgish: “Gland VD”
- Malay: “Gland, Switzerland”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gland i Sveits”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gland”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gland”
- Persian: “گلان، سوئیس”
- Polish: “Gland”
- Portuguese: “Gland”
- Romansh: “Gland”
- Russian: “Глан”
- Russian: “Гланд (город)”
- Russian: “Гланд (коммуна)”
- Russian: “Гланд (Швейцария)”
- Russian: “Гланд”
- Slovak: “Gland”
- Slovenian: “Gland”
- South Azerbaijani: “گلان، سوئیس”
- Spanish: “Gland”
- Swedish: “Gland, Vaud”
- Swedish: “Gland”
- Swiss German: “Gland VD”
- Tosk Albanian: “Gland VD”
- Turkish: “Gland”
- Ukrainian: “Глан”
- Ukrainian: “Гланд”
- Upper Sorbian: “Gland”
- Venetian: “Gland (Svisara)”
- Venetian: “Gland”
- Volapük: “Gland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gland VD”
- Welsh: “Gland”
- “Gland”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Administration communale and Salle communale.
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