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Mézières

village and former municipality in Jorat-Mézières in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
Place former_municipality_of_switzerland Q68921

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
former municipality of Switzerland, Village[4]
Country
Switzerland[3]
Official website
www.mezieres.ch[9]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.595°, 6.774°
Area
+3.48[16]
Elevation above sea level
+742, +722[14][15]
Head of government
Patrice Guenat
Licence plate code
VD[7]
List of monuments
list of cultural properties in Jorat-Mézières[13]
Local dialing code
021[8]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Jorat-Mézières[2]
Office held by head of government
mayor of Mézières[10]
Official language
French[5]
Official name
Mézières VD[12]
P14976
92DCB5CB-D13F-487F-B907-024A23F425C6[17]
Postal code
1083[6]
Replaced by
Jorat-Mézières[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Mézières, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland en Mezieres en Mézières en Mézières VD en Mézières, Vaud en Mezieres VD de Mézières VD es Mezieres es Mezières es Mézieres fr Mezieres he מזייר hu Mézières (VD) ru Мезьер zh 梅济耶尔
🔖 Identifiers · 13
VIAF cluster ID
252155284874987062437
GND ID
4366042-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Mézières vaud.jpg ↗
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Stresow
Freebase ID
/m/09t3wt
GeoNames ID
8533270, 7286504
HDS ID
002560
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1685069
SPAP ID
p/cdb0e364-75e8-45a2-81a7-1a0322f20e2f
Swiss municipality code
5791
Topic's main category
Category:Mézières, Vaud
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Who's on First ID
1293034525

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PopulationP1082
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20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Zurich 2026-09-26 A/ADM3H · CH GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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🔗 Connections
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 2
Lavaux-Oron District, Jorat-Mézières
Country 1
Switzerland
Instance of 1
Village
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Jorat-Mézières
Located in this place 1
Théâtre du Jorat
Official language 1
French
People born here 1
Henri Guisan
Replaced by 1
Jorat-Mézières
← Replaces 1
Jorat-Mézières
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Summary

Mézières is a former municipality of Switzerland[1].

Related Entities

Henri Guisan Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . swissNAMES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . swissNAMES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14976 → 92DCB5CB-D13F-487F-B907-024A23F425C6
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14976: 92DCB5CB-D13F-487F-B907-024A23F425C6, swissNAMES3D ID from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 24d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://www.mezieres.ch
    Instance of → —
    Country → Switzerland
    Topic's main category → Category:Mézières, Vaud
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||mul */ default label, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
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