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Faoug
Summary
Faoug (fu) is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Faoug is first mentioned in 1228 as Fol.
Faoug has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 25.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.6% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 9.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.3%. Out of the forested land, 23.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 48.7% is used for growing crops and 5.2% is pastures, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality was part of the Avenches District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Faoug became part of the new district of Broye-Vully.
The municipality is located on the southern shore of Lake Murten along the border with the Canton of Fribourg.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale, 1. Azure, on a mount Vert a Peacock Azure with Tail proper, 2. Gules, a bush eradicated Vert flowered Argent.
Faoug has a population () of . , 15.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 28.5%. It has changed at a rate of 22.3% due to migration and at a rate of 5.6% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (317 or 56.7%), with German being second most common (191 or 34.2%) and Portuguese being third (18 or 3.2%). There are 9 people who speak Italian.
Of the population in the municipality 149 or about 26.7% were born in Faoug and lived there in 2000. There were 63 or 11.3% who were born in the same canton, while 249 or 44.5% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 93 or 16.6% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 10 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 6 deaths of Swiss citizens.
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