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As of 2000, there were 272 students in Gland who came from another municipality, while 451 residents attended schools outside the municipality. [19] Gland is home to the Bibl. scolaire et communale de Gland library. The library has (as of 2008) 22,346 books or other media, and loaned out 41,248 items in the same year. It was open a total of 251 ...
This is an alphabetical list of towns or cities (these English terms can be used interchangeably, as there is no official differentiation), which follows the FSO's definition (German: Statistische Städte 2012, French: Villes statistiques 2012), as well as places with historic town rights (h) and/or market towns (m).
There were 4,057 Swiss women (36.5%) and 1,572 (14.1%) non-Swiss women. [9] Of the population in the municipality, 1,760 or about 18.8% were born in Villars-sur-Glâne and lived there in 2000. There were 3,367 or 36.1% who were born in the same canton, while 1,500 or 16.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 2,405 or 25.8% were born ...
Prominent Swiss women in the fields of business and law include Emilie Kempin-Spyri (1853–1901), the first woman to graduate with a law degree and to be accepted as an academic lecturer in the country, [4] and Isabelle Welton, the head of IBM Switzerland and one of few women in the country to hold a top-level position in a business firm. [6] [7]
The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.1 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 13.5% of the workforce coming into Vich are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.3% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. [15]
There were 10 Swiss men and 13 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 184 non-Swiss men and 199 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 109 and the non-Swiss ...
This list shows the roads in Switzerland named after a woman, order by canton and by city. Geneva Among more than 500 streets named after a person, only 21 are named ...
Switzerland had a 2019 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 3.53/10, ranking it 150th globally out of 172 countries. [83] Switzerland ranked 9th in the Environmental Performance Index for 2024. [84] It scored well in parameters including air pollution, sanitation and drinking water, waste management, and climate change mitigation. [85]