Prangins

Also known as Prangins VD

Prangins () is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located on Lake Geneva.

Key facts

Swiss town.area: 6.03
Swiss town.subject_name: Prangins
Swiss town.image_photo: Schloss Prangins 1.jpg
Swiss town.image_caption: Castle of Prangins
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: CHE Prangins COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag: CHE Prangins Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton: Vaud
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-VD
Swiss town.district: Nyon
Swiss town.postal_code: 1197
Swiss town.municipality_code: 5725
Swiss town.elevation: 413
Swiss town.population: 3133
Swiss town.populationof: 2000
Swiss town.website: www.Prangins.ch
Swiss town.mayor: François Briand
Swiss town.mayor_title: Syndic

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Commune de Prangins - Accueil

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Prangins
Population: 4038
Area: 6.07
Elevation: 409
Official website: www.prangins.ch
Image: Schloss Prangins 1.jpg
Dialing code: 022
Licence plate code: VD

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postal code: 1197
Commons category: Prangins
P8168: Treaty of Stettin
external data available at URL: geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/5725

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Prangins () is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located on Lake Geneva.

==History== thumb|Aerial view (1964) Prangins is first mentioned around 1135-85 as Prengins. Following the fall of the Second French Empire, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte and his wife, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, resided in exile at Château de Prangins, where Charles I of Austria and his family would later take residence briefly, beginning 20 May 1919.