Ayent
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ayent VS, Agent, Argenta
Ayent () is a municipality in the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Ayent
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Anzere02.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Anzère village
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Ayent Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Ayent COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Valais
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VS
- Swiss town.district
- Hérens
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1966
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6082
- Swiss town.area
- 55.1
- Swiss town.elevation
- 967
- Swiss town.highest
- Wildhorn
- Swiss town.highest_m
- 3247
- Swiss town.lowest
- hameau de la Maya
- Swiss town.lowest_m
- 508
- Swiss town.population
- 3516
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Municipality of Switzerland
- Official name
- Ayent
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Hérens District
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 4059
- Area
- 55.14
- Elevation
- 2235
- Official website
- www.ayent.ch
- Image
- Anzere01.jpg
- Dialing code
- 027
- Licence plate code
- VS
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- Commons category
- Ayent
- twinned administrative body
- Saint-Brevin-les-Pins
- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/6082
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Coat of arms
- Demographics
- Politics
- Economy
- Religion
- Education
- References
- External links
Ayent () is a municipality in the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
==History== The Ayent area is first mentioned in 1052 as Agent. In 1250 it was mentioned as Argenta.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ayent” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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