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Oron

municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
AdministrativeArea municipality_of_switzerland Q70734

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality of Switzerland
Official website
www.oron.ch[12]
Official name
Oron[27]

Location

Country
Switzerland[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.567°, 6.833°
Located in or next to body of water
Broye[3]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Lavaux-Oron District[1]

Population and size

Area
26.3 (24.6–26.3, n=3)[30][31][32]
Elevation above sea level
+631[29]
Population
6.4k (5.5k–6.4k, n=3)[13][14][15]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 5,461 · 5,500 · 6,447 GeoNames 5,661 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
1.6k (1.6k–1.6k, n=4)[7][8][9][10]
More facts +8
Head of government
Philippe Modoux
Licence plate code
VD[11]
List of monuments
list of cultural properties in Oron[28]
Office held by head of government
mayor of Oron[16]
Official language
French[4]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[33]
Replaces
Les Tavernes, Palézieux, Vuibroye, Chesalles-sur-Oron, Les Thioleyres, Oron-le-Châtel, Bussigny-sur-Oron, Ecoteaux, Châtillens, Oron-la-Ville[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]
Twinned administrative body
Bussac-Forêt, Vers-Pont-du-Gard[5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Oron en Oron, Switzerland en Oron VD de Oron VD fr Oron VD it Oron VD pl Oron (Szwajcaria) ru Орон zh 奥龙
🔖 Identifiers · 13
VIAF cluster ID
5436169865886292150001
GND ID
1307262716
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Oron-la-Ville, temple d'Oron.jpg ↗
External data available at URL
geo.ld.admin.ch
FactGrid item ID
Björn Leonhardt
Freebase ID
/m/0hzprs_
GeoNames ID
8260344
HDS ID
050191
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1948073
SPAP ID
p/35aa8f25-7ef3-4ed4-914b-004d890825d9
Swiss municipality code
5805
Topic's main category
Category:Oron, Switzerland
Show all 13 identifiers +1
Who's on First ID
404568409
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 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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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Zurich 2026-09-26 A/ADM3 · 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.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
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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.
🔗 Connections
Replaces 10
Oron-la-Ville, Palézieux, Ecoteaux, Vuibroye, Chesalles-sur-Oron, Oron-le-Châtel, Bussigny-sur-Oron, Châtillens +2 more
← Replaced by 10
Oron-la-Ville, Palézieux, Ecoteaux, Vuibroye, Chesalles-sur-Oron, Oron-le-Châtel, Bussigny-sur-Oron, Châtillens +2 more
Contained subdivisions 7
Essertes, Ecoteaux, Oron-le-Châtel, Palézieux railway station, Palézieux-Village railway station, Châtillens railway station, Oron Castle with fountain and well
Twinned administrative body 2
Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Bussac-Forêt
Country 1
Switzerland
Instance of 1
municipality of Switzerland
Located in or next to body of water 1
Broye
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Lavaux-Oron District
Official language 1
French
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
Topic's main category 1
Category:Oron, Switzerland
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Oron, Switzerland
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Lavaux-Oron District
← Start point 1
2021 Tour de Romandie
← Twinned administrative body 1
Bussac-Forêt
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Related Entities

Switzerland Vers-Pont-du-Gard WikiProject Govdirectory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . pxweb.bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
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  21. [21] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
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  26. [26] ↑ . Historicized municipal directory of Switzerland. wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [32] ↑ . swissBOUNDARIES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [33] ↑ . govdirectory.org. Retrieved . govdirectory.org. Provenance: 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 · Horgner · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+5461'}, {'amount': '+5500'}, {'amount': '+6447'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Population: 6,447, mass upload ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/e2ea98ac2e9|details]])"
  2. 20d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fr', 'it', 'nl', 'nn',
    Sitelink count → 21
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+24.60'}, {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+24.62'}, {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+26.28'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Area: 26.28 square kilometre, area from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  3. 19w ago · Lehmannro · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Flag image → CHE Oron Flag.svg
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Flag image: CHE Oron Flag.svg, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782070149300"
  4. 23w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    List of monuments → list of cultural properties in Oron
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+631'}
    Replaces → —
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||ur */"
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