Chavannes-de-Bogis

Chavannes-de-Bogis is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Chavannes-de-Bogis is first mentioned around 1477-85 as Cabane de Bogiez. Chavannes-de-Bogis has an area, , of . Of this area, or 58.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 12.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 24.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 5.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 9.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 12.3%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 49.5% is used for growing crops and 9.1% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the Nyon District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Chavannes-de-Bogis became part of the new district of Nyon. Chavannes de Bogis is a border crossing point from France (Divonnes les Bains) and as such forms a major traffic artery during rush hours. Chavannes is an agricultural village, there's a mixture of farmers (cereals) and vineyards, there are also several stables and a couple of bee keepers. It consists of the village of Chavannes-de-Bogis and the hamlet of Péguey. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Bar wavy Argent, in chief two crossed Keys in saltire of the same, in base a triple Mount Or. Chavannes-de-Bogis has a population () of . , 39.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals.[ Most of the population () speaks French (755 or 72.0%), with English being second most common (132 or 12.6%) and German being third (74 or 7.1%). There are 20 people who speak Italian. The age distribution, , in Chavannes-de-Bogis is; 279 children or 21.6% of the population. Adult population is 1011 people, 49% being men and 51% being women there were 346 private households in the municipality, and an average of 3. persons per household.