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Corbeyrier is a municipality in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Aigle. It became a municipality in 1718. Corbeyrier is first mentioned in 1261 as de Cubiriaco. Corbeyrier has an area, , of . Of this area, or 36.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 54.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 2.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 6.9% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.2%. Out of the forested land, 47.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.0% is used for growing crops and 5.0% is pastures and 30.8% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. Of the unproductive areas, 4.6% is unproductive vegetation and 2.2% is too rocky for vegetation. The municipality is located in the Aigle district, on the right bank of Rhone river. The municipality stretches from the upper end of the vineyard of Yvorne to the alpine pastures of the Eau-Froide and Petit-Hongrin valleys. It consists of the village of Corbeyrier and the hamlets of Boveau, Luan, Le Crettex and Vers Cort. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Wolf Head Sable, langued Gules. Corbeyrier has a population () of . , 8.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 8.6%. It has changed at a rate of 29.4% due to migration and at a rate of -20.2% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (323 or 93.1%), with German being second most common (13 or 3.7%) and Italian being third (4 or 1.2%). Of the population in the municipality 90 or about 25.9% were born in Corbeyrier and lived there in 2000. There were 134 or 38.6% who were born in the same canton, while 63 or 18.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 41 or 11.8% were born outside of Switzerland.

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Aigle District

Aigle District is a district of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Aigle has an area, , of . Of this area, or 34.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 41.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.0% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 17.7% is unproductive land. Aigle has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks French (28,451 or 80.7%), with German being second most common (1,268 or 3.6%) and Portuguese being third (884 or 2.5%). There are 848 people who speak Italian and 12 people who speak Romansh.

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