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Encyclopedia > Crassier
Crassier
Canton Vaud
District Nyon
Coordinates  46°22′N 6°10′E
Population 786   (2003)
Area 2.03 km²
Elevation 475 m
Postal code 1263
SFSO nbr 5714
Mayor
Website www.crassier.ch
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Crassier is a municipality in the district of Nyon of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... The Canton of Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland located in the southwestern part of the country. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ... Nyons flag has a fish over red and blue stripes. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January events January 1 Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... -1... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The metre (Commonwealth English) or meter (American English) (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... Here are postal codes of Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Zone 1 1000s are found in Lausanne, Lavaux and parts of Morges, 1100s in parts of Morges, 1200s are in Geneva and parts of La Côte, Vaud, 1300s in La Vallée, 1500s are found in Clavaleyres, the 1700s are found... The Official Munipality Key, formerly also known as the Official Municipality Characteristic Number or Municipality Code Number, is a number sequence for the identification of politically independent municipalities or municipality-free areas. ... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. ... Municipalities are the smallest government division in Switzerland. ... The Canton of Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland located in the southwestern part of the country. ...

Coat of arms of the Canton of Vaud Municipalities of the district of Nyon (Switzerland)
Arnex-sur-Nyon | Arzier | Bassins | Begnins | Bogis-Bossey | Borex | Chavannes-de-Bogis | Chavannes-des-Bois | Chéserex | Coinsins | Commugny | Coppet | Crans-près-Céligny | Crassier | Duillier | Eysins | Founex | Genolier | Gingins | Givrins | Gland | Grens | La Rippe | Le Vaud | Mies | Nyon | Prangins | Signy-Avenex | Saint-Cergue | Tannay | Trélex | Vich
Canton of Vaud | Municipalities of the canton of Vaud | Switzerland

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