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Pompaples
Résumé
Pompaples is a municipality in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
Pompaples is first mentioned in 1049 as Pons Papuli.
Pompaples has an area, , of . Of this area, or 70.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 18.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.4% is unproductive land.
Of the built-up area, housing and buildings made up 3.6%, and transportation infrastructure made up 4.9%. Of the forested land, 14.2% of the total land area is heavily forested, and 4.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 57.5% is used for growing crops, 11.5% is pasture, and 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Cossonay District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Pompaples became part of the new district of Morges.
The municipality is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Vert and Gules, overall a tongs and hammer in saltire Or.
Pompaples has a population () of . , 21.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 11.3%. It has changed at a rate of 17.2% due to migration and at a rate of -4.5% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (685 or 90.0%), with Portuguese being second most common (19 or 2.5%) and German being third (18 or 2.4%). There are 4 people who speak Italian.
Of the population in the municipality 138 or about 18.1% were born in Pompaples and lived there in 2000. There were 298 or 39.2% who were born in the same canton, while 142 or 18.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 158 or 20.8% 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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