Gland

Gland is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of in . The city also is home to the headquarters of the IUCN and WWF, and hosts the Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands, also known as the Ramsar Convention.
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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.

Railway station
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station in the municipality of Gland, in the canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Aerodrome
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a private airfield in , . It hosted a fly-in in 2009, 2011, 2013, on August 15, 2015 and in 2019.

Castle
Photo: EdouardHue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle in the municipality of of the Canton of Vaud in . 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.

Village
is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of in .

Village
Photo: EdouardHue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of in the canton of in .

Village
Photo: Barthélemy Menn, Public domain.
is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of in .

Gland

Latitude
46.42394° or 46° 25′ 26″ north
Longitude
6.26551° or 6° 15′ 56″ east
Population
11,900
Elevation
416 metres (1,365 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CH GAD
Open location code
8FR8C7F8+H6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1932397580
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2660600
Wiki­data ID
Q69300
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Gland” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غلاند”
  • Aragonese: “Gland”
  • 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”
  • Central Kurdish: “گلاند، سویس”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “گلان”
  • 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”
  • Urdu: “گلینڈ، سوئٹزرلینڈ”
  • Venetian: “Gland (Svisara)”
  • Venetian: “Gland”
  • Volapük: “Gland”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gland VD”
  • Welsh: “Gland”
  • “Gland”

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