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Also known as Yens VD, Yens-sur-Morges

Yens is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name
Yens
Swiss town.municipality_type
municipality
Swiss town.image_photo
Yens 007.jpg
Swiss town.image_caption
Yens train station
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
CHE Yens COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag
CHE Yens Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton
Vaud
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-VD
Swiss town.district
Morges
Swiss town.postal_code
1169
Swiss town.municipality_code
5655
Swiss town.area
9.52
Swiss town.elevation
563
Swiss town.population
989
Swiss town.populationof
2003
Swiss town.website
www.yens.ch
Swiss town.mayor
Jean-Luc ANDRE
Swiss town.mayor_title
Syndic

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Official name
Yens
Located in
Morges District
Official language
French
Population
1430
Area
9.51
Elevation
637
Official website
www.yens.ch
Image
Yens 007.jpg
Dialing code
021
Licence plate code
VD
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Commons category
Yens
postal code
1169
external data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/5655
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Geography
  • Coat of arms
  • Demographics
  • Sights
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Religion
  • Education
  • References
  • External links

Yens is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.

==Geography== Yens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 54.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 38.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.2% is unproductive land.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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