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Paudex

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Paudex is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron. It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne. Paudex is first mentioned in 1220 as Paudais. Paudex has an area, , of (depending on calculation method). Of this area, or 8.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 10.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 83.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.1% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 64.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 14.6%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.2%. Out of the forested land, 6.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.0% is used for growing crops and 2.1% is pastures, while 6.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the Lausanne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Paudex became part of the new district of Lavaux-Oron. The municipality is located along Lake Geneva between Pully and Lutry. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Bar wavy Argent, in chief a Rooster passant of the same. Paudex has a population () of . , 29.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 0.4%. It has changed at a rate of -1.6% due to migration and at a rate of 2.4% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (1,174 or 83.7%), with German being second most common (65 or 4.6%) and Italian being third (45 or 3.2%). There is 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 187 or about 13.3% were born in Paudex and lived there in 2000. There were 528 or 37.6% who were born in the same canton, while 249 or 17.7% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 399 or 28.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
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