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Vaud

Vaud, more formally Canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts; its capital city is .
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, the capital of the canton of Vaud, is a city of 140,000 people that sits at the northernmost point of Lake Geneva. It is the public transport hub of Vaud, and a gateway to the alpine Canton of the Valais, home to some of the best-known ski slopes in the world.

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is mostly known for its world-famous two-week-long Jazz Festival, but it is well worth a wander through, if only to get to the scenic Château de Chillon or to get to the hiker's paradise of Hauts de .

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is a small town on the western shore of , . The Romans who founded the settlement in the 1st century BC called it Noviodunum. Today you can visit a few Roman ruins and a Roman museum.

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is a town in in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Leman, near . The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used.

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Yverdon-les-Bains with its 24,000 inhabitants, is the second largest town in the Canton de Vaud. Situated at the southern shore of the Lac de Neuchâtel, it is the southern gate to the Pays des Trois-Lacs, host of the 2002 National Exhibition in .

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is internationally famous as a terraced wine-growing region on the shores of Lake Geneva in western . It covers the territory roughly from to , extending to an altitude of roughly 500 meters above lake level and including 6 lake shore villages and the city of .

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is a town of about 3,000 people in the Three Lakes area of . is noted for the Roman ruins that remain from the time when the area was a major Roman outpost.

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, in the commune of Vaud is a laid back, non-posh, non-pretentious mountain village in the Vaud Alps, above . It also happens to be the site of a ski resort with awesome off piste possibilities.

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Château-d'Œx is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in . It is in the district of .

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is a city in the Jura region of . It has its place in Swiss history as the location of an experimental nuclear reactor which was destroyed in a partial meltdown in 1969, Switzerland's most serious nuclear accident to date.

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is a village in in the canton of Vaud. It is part of the municipality of Ollon. Villars is a ski resort close to and , which offers a reasonable range of pistes at a moderate altitude.

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is a ski resort in Vaud in Switzerland. It has high-altitude skiing on the glacier and some challenging runs. It's connected by ski-lifts to nearby , which is at lower altitude and better suited to young children and beginners.

Vaud

Latitude of center
46.6357° or 46° 38′ 9″ north
Longitude of center
6.5321° or 6° 31′ 56″ east
Population
823,000
Elevation
693 metres (2,274 feet)
Abbreviation
“VD”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1390207180
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2658182
Wiki­data ID
Q12771
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Vaud” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kanton Vaud”
  • Albanian: “Kantoni Vaud”
  • Arabic: “فود”
  • Arabic: “كانتون فود”
  • Aragonese: “Cantón de Vaud”
  • Armenian: “Վո”
  • Arpitan: “Canton de Vôd”
  • Arpitan: “Quenton de Vôd”
  • Asturian: “Vaud”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vo (kanton)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vo kantonu”
  • Balinese: “Kanton Vaud”
  • Basque: “Vaud kantonamendua”
  • Basque: “Vaud”
  • Belarusian: “Во (кантон)”
  • Belarusian: “Во”
  • Belarusian: “кантон Во”
  • Bengali: “ভৌড ক্যান্টন”
  • Bosnian: “Vaud”
  • Breton: “Kanton Vaud”
  • Bulgarian: “Во”
  • Catalan: “Vaud”
  • Cebuano: “Canton de Vaud”
  • Chinese: “Vaud Chiu”
  • Chinese: “沃州”
  • Chinese: “禾州”
  • Chuvash: “Во”
  • Corsican: “Vaud”
  • Croatian: “Vaud”
  • Czech: “Vaud”
  • Danish: “Vaud”
  • Dutch: “Vaud”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ڤود”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Vaŭdo”
  • Esperanto: “Vaŭdo”
  • Estonian: “Vaud‘ kanton”
  • Estonian: “Vaud’ kanton”
  • Finnish: “Vaud”
  • French: “canton de Vaud”
  • French: “Canton de Vaud”
  • French: “État de Vaud”
  • French: “Vaud”
  • French: “VD”
  • Galician: “Cantón de Vaud”
  • Galician: “Vaud”
  • Galician: “VD”
  • Georgian: “ვოს კანტონი”
  • German: “Kanton Waadt”
  • German: “Vaud”
  • German: “VD”
  • German: “Waadt”
  • German: “Waadtland”
  • Greek: “καντόνι του Βω”
  • Greek: “Καντόνι του Βω”
  • Gujarati: “કેન્ટોન ઓફ વૌડ”
  • Hebrew: “וו”
  • Hindi: “वो कैन्टन”
  • Hindi: “वौद कैंटन”
  • Hungarian: “Vaud kanton”
  • Icelandic: “Vaud”
  • Iloko: “Vaud”
  • Indonesian: “Kanton Vaud”
  • Interlingue: “Canton de Vaud”
  • Irish: “cantún Vaud”
  • Italian: “canton Vaud”
  • Italian: “Canton Vaud”
  • Italian: “Vado”
  • Italian: “Vaud”
  • Italian: “VD”
  • Japanese: “ヴォー州”
  • Javanese: “Kanton Vaud”
  • Kannada: “ವಾಡ್ ಕ್ಯಾಂಟನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Во”
  • Korean: “보 주”
  • Korean: “보”
  • Korean: “보주”
  • Kurdish: “Vaud”
  • Ladin: “Cianton de Vaud”
  • Latin: “Pagus Valdensis”
  • Latin: “Valdensis”
  • Latvian: “Vo kantons”
  • Limburgan: “Vaud”
  • Lithuanian: “Vo”
  • Lombard: “Canton Vaud”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanton Vaud”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanton Waadt”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vaud”
  • Luxembourgish: “VD”
  • Macedonian: “Во”
  • Malay: “Vaud”
  • Marathi: “व्हो”
  • Mazanderani: “وود”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vaud Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Waadt”
  • Northern Sami: “Vaud”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaud”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vaud”
  • Norwegian: “Vaud”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canton de Vaud”
  • Ossetian: “Во (кантон)”
  • Ossetian: “Во”
  • Persian: “کانتون وو”
  • Persian: “وو”
  • Polish: “Vaud”
  • Portuguese: “Vaud”
  • Pushto: “وادت”
  • Romanian: “cantonul Vaud”
  • Romanian: “Cantonul Vaud”
  • Romansh: “Chantun Vad”
  • Romansh: “Vad.”
  • Romansh: “Vad”
  • Russian: “Ваадт”
  • Russian: “Во”
  • Russian: “Кантон Во”
  • Scots: “Vaud”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vaud”
  • Serbian: “Кантон Во”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vaud”
  • Sicilian: “Canton Vaud”
  • Sinhala: “වවුඩ් පළාත”
  • Slovak: “Vaud”
  • Slovenian: “Kanton Vaud”
  • Slovenian: “Kanton Waadt”
  • Slovenian: “Vaud”
  • Slovenian: “VD”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وو”
  • Spanish: “Cantón de Vaud”
  • Spanish: “Vaud”
  • Spanish: “VD”
  • Swahili: “Vaud”
  • Swedish: “Vaud”
  • Swiss German: “Kanton Waadt”
  • Tamil: “காண்டோன் ஆப் வாஉத்”
  • Tatar: “Во вилаяте”
  • Tatar: “Во кантуны”
  • Telugu: “కాంటన్ ఆఫ్ వాడ్”
  • Thai: “รัฐโว”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kanton Waadt”
  • Turkish: “canton de Vaud”
  • Turkish: “Vad”
  • Turkish: “Vaud”
  • Turkish: “VD”
  • Ukrainian: “Во”
  • Ukrainian: “кантон Во”
  • Urdu: “وو”
  • Venetian: “Canton Vaud”
  • Vietnamese: “Vaud”
  • Vietnamese: “VD”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vaud”
  • Welsh: “Vaud”
  • Western Panjabi: “واود”
  • Wu Chinese: “沃州”
  • Yue Chinese: “禾州”

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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 “Vaud”. Photo: Annickjaquillard, CC BY-SA 4.0.