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Nuvilly
Summary
Nuvilly (Nôvelyi nyviˈji) is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Nuvilly is first mentioned in 1242 as Nuovillie.
Nuvilly has an area, , of . Of this area, or 74.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 18.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.3% is settled (buildings or roads).
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.0%. Out of the forested land, 16.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 55.0% is used for growing crops and 17.8% is pastures, while 1.3% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality is located in the Broye district, in the southernmost part of the Estavayer-le-Lac exclave and the Broye valley.
The municipalities of Châbles, Cheyres, Murist, Nuvilly and Vuissens are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality with an, , undetermined name.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Pally of Six Argent and Azure overall on a Bend Gules three Mullets of Five.
Nuvilly has a population () of . , 2.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 14.4%. Migration accounted for 17%, while births and deaths accounted for 0.3%.
Most of the population () speaks French (280 or 95.2%) as their first language, German is the second most common (10 or 3.4%) and Portuguese is the third (2 or 0.7%).
the population was 48.8% male and 51.2% female. The population was made up of 164 Swiss men (47.4% of the population) and 5 (1.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 167 Swiss women (48.3%) and 10 (2.9%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 150 or about 51.0% were born in Nuvilly and lived there in 2000. There were 60 or 20.4% who were born in the same canton, while 62 or 21.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 18 or 6.1% were born outside of Switzerland.
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