Gimel, Switzerland

Gimel is a municipality in the Swiss the canton Vaud, located in the district of Morges. Gimel is first mentioned around 979-993 as Gemella. Gimel has an area, , of . Of this area, or 32.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 61.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.7% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.5% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 60.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 20.6% is used for growing crops and 6.7% is pastures and 4.3% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the Aubonne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Gimel became part of the new district of Morges. The municipality is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains on the Col du Marchairuz road. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, Twins Argent. The twins on the coat of arms may represent Gemini (Gémeaux) and come from the name of the municipality. Gimel has a population () of . , 19.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 29.7%. It has changed at a rate of 31.5% due to migration and at a rate of -2% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (1,285 or 88.7%), with German being second most common (39 or 2.7%) and Italian being third (35 or 2.4%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 418 or about 28.8% were born in Gimel and lived there in 2000. There were 473 or 32.6% who were born in the same canton, while 215 or 14.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 288 or 19.9% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 10 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 14 deaths of Swiss citizens and 1 non-Swiss citizen death.

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