Venthône
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Venthône () is a former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of Miège, Venthône and Veyras merged to form the new municipality of Noble-Contrée.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Venthône
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Venthône.gif
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- Flag of Venthône.gif
- Swiss town.canton
- Valais
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VS
- Swiss town.district
- Sierre
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3973
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6249
- Swiss town.area
- 2.5
- Swiss town.elevation
- 799
- Swiss town.population
- 1297
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2019
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2019
- Swiss town.website
- www.venthone.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Gérard Clivaz
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Miège, Mollens, Randogne, Sierre, Veyras
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Ortschaft
- Official name
- Venthône
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Noble-Contrée
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 1283
- Area
- 2.5
- Elevation
- 799
- Official website
- www.venthone.ch
- Image
- Venthône (VS).jpg
- Dialing code
- 027
- Licence plate code
- VS
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- external data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/6249
- Commons category
- Venthône
- postal code
- 3973
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Demographics
- Heritage sites of national significance
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Venthône () is a former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2021 the former municipalities of Miège, Venthône and Veyras merged to form the new municipality of Noble-Contrée.
==Geography== thumb|Aerial view (1949) Venthône had an area, , of . Of this area, or 44.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 24.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 31.2% is settled (buildings or roads).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Venthône” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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