Assens
Assens is a municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It includes the localities of Bioley-Orjulaz, Malapalud and Assens…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,700 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Assens VD” and “Assens, Switzerland”
- Postal code: 1042
Places of Interest
Highlights include Assens railway station and Assens Tumulus.
Assens railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Abaddon1337, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Assens railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Assens, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is located on the 1,000 mm Lausanne–Bercher line of the Chemin de fer Lausanne-Échallens-Bercher.
Assens Tumulus
Archaeological site
Photo: Inisheer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Assens Tumulus is an archaeological site.
Etagnières railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Abaddon1337, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Etagnières railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Étagnières, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is located on the 1,000 mm Lausanne–Bercher line of the Chemin de fer Lausanne-Échallens-Bercher.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Étagnières and Malapalud.
Étagnières
Village
Photo: Manoillon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Étagnières is a municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Malapalud
Village
Malapalud is a former municipality in the district of Échallens in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, it was merged with the municipality of Assens.
Bioley-Orjulaz
Village
Photo: Manoillon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bioley-Orjulaz is a former municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2021 it merged into the municipality of Assens.
Assens
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Assens, Gros-de-Vaud District, Vaud, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.61279° or 46° 36′ 46″ northLongitude
6.62259° or 6° 37′ 21″ eastPopulation
1,700Elevation
629 metres (2,064 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH ASSOpen location code
8FR8JJ7F+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 240085891OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Assens” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Assens”
- Breton: “Assens”
- Cebuano: “Assens (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Assens”
- Chinese: “阿桑”
- Dutch: “Assens”
- Esperanto: “Assens VD”
- Esperanto: “Assens”
- French: “Assens”
- German: “Assens VD”
- German: “Assens”
- Hungarian: “Assens”
- Irish: “Assens”
- Italian: “Assens”
- Lombard: “Assens”
- Malay: “Assens, Switzerland”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Assens”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Assens i Sveits”
- Polish: “Assens (Szwajcaria)”
- Polish: “Assens”
- Portuguese: “Assens (Suíça)”
- Portuguese: “Assens”
- Romansh: “Assens”
- Russian: “Ассен”
- Spanish: “Assens”
- Swedish: “Assens, Vaud”
- Swedish: “Assens”
- Swiss German: “Assens VD”
- Tosk Albanian: “Assens VD”
- Turkish: “Assens”
- Ukrainian: “Асан”
- Upper Sorbian: “Assens”
- Venetian: “Assens (Svisara)”
- Venetian: “Assens”
- Volapük: “Assens”
- Waray (Philippines): “Assens, Switzerland”
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