L’Orient
L'Orient is a village in the Vallée de Joux, Vaud, Switzerland. It was created in 1904 and is part of the municipality of Le Chenit. The village takes its name from the fact that it is located on the right bank of the river Orbe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Switzerland
- Also known as: “L’Orient, Switzerland” and “Orient”
- Postal code: 1341
Places of Interest
Highlights include Église catholique and Le Sentier-L’Orient railway station.
Le Sentier-L’Orient railway station
Railway station
Photo: Abaddon1337, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Le Sentier-L'Orient railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Le Chenit, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Vallorbe–Le Brassus line of Swiss Federal Railways and Travys.
La Bobine Le Sentier
Movie theater
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La Bobine Le Sentier is a movie theater.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Le Chenit and Le Sentier.
Le Chenit
Village
Photo: Giovanni-P, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Le Chenit is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois in the Vallée de Joux.
Le Sentier
Village
Le Sentier is a village in the Vallée de Joux in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Part of the municipality Le Chenit, the village has 3,000 inhabitants.
Le Brassus
Village
Photo: Giovanni-P, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Le Brassus is a village in the Vallée de Joux in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It is part of the municipality Le Chenit. Le Brassus is situated 3 km southwest of L’Orient.
L’Orient
- Category: locality
- Location: Le Chenit, Jura-Nord vaudois District, Vaud, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.60154° or 46° 36′ 6″ northLongitude
6.24015° or 6° 14′ 25″ eastElevation
1,014 metres (3,327 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH LOROpen location code
8FR8J62R+J3OpenStreetMap ID
node 130294215OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6619276Wikidata ID
Q3204685
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In Other Languages
From Arpitan to Uzbek—“L’Orient” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “L’Oriant”
- Chinese: “东方村”
- Chinese: “東方村”
- Chinese: “洛里昂”
- Dutch: “L’Orient, Switzerland”
- Dutch: “L’Orient”
- French: “L’Orient”
- Italian: “L’Orient”
- Polish: “L’Orient (Le Chenit)”
- Polish: “L’Orient”
- Spanish: “L’Orient (Vaud)”
- Spanish: “L’Orient”
- Uzbek: “L’Orient (Shveysariya)”
- Uzbek: “L’Orient”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Les Sagnes du Sentier and L’Orient.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “L’Orient”. Photo: DarDarCH, CC BY-SA 4.0.