Lausanne
Capital city of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
Also known as Lausanne VD · Olympic Capital · City of Lausanne
- Country
- Located in
- Lausanne District(since 2000)
- Population
- 144,873(December 31, 2024)
- , 145,596(December 31, 2025)
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Sources- 1.“Bilanz der ständigen Wohnbevölkerung nach Bezirken und Gemeinden, 1991-2025”bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerung/stand-entwicklung.assetdetail.36681837.htmlRetrieved 2026-10-16
- , 144,160(December 31, 2023)
- +44 more
- Area
- 41.37 km²
- , 41.38 km²(2004)
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Sources- 1.“Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen”bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/raum-umwelt/bodennutzung-bedeckung/gesamtspektrum-regionalen-stufen/gemeinden.htmlRetrieved 2019-01-13
- Elevation
- 495 m
- Head of government
- Grégoire Junod(since 2016)
- , Daniel Brélaz(2001–2016)
- , Jean-Jacques Schilt(1998–2001)
- +2 more
- Postal code
- 1000
- , 1001
- , 1003
- +11 more
- Website
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
254 statements · 37% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Official name
- Lausanne
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Sources- 1.Stated in Historical Dictionary of SwitzerlandRetrieved 2021-05-12
- Lausanne
- Native label
- Lausanne pronunciation audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Eihel-Lausanne.wav
- Demonym
- Lausannoise applies to part: feminine singular
- Lausannois applies to part: masculine singular
- лозаноӣ
- Social media followers
- 11,300(May 22, 2025) youtube channel id: UC48xde_qASVyNZ3D4MnzlOQ
- 10,900(June 8, 2024) youtube channel id: UC48xde_qASVyNZ3D4MnzlOQ
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- 14,106(February 7, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 215989161
- 13,031(January 7, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 215989161
- 11,925(January 5, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 215989161
- 10,840(April 18, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 215989161
- Capital of
- Canton of Vaud(since 1803)
- Lausanne District(since 2000)
- Related category
- Category:Streets in Lausanne category contains: street
- Category:Urban squares in Lausanne category contains: square
- Heritage designation
- Swiss townscape worthy of protection inventory number: ISOS 4397 · object of statement named as: Lausanne
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- Swiss townscape worthy of protection inventory number: ISOS 4397 · object of statement named as: Lausanne
On other databases
104 identifiers linking Lausanne across the web's reference databases
- Alvin IDalvin-place:1542
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- ArchINFORM location ID1653
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinelozana
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- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11881072f
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDlausanne
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf10394210
- CANTIC ID981060950321006706
- Curlie IDRegional/Europe/Switzerland/Cantons/Vaud/Lausanne/
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- Dewey Decimal Classification2--49452414
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- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID219359
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2pVAs5
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)381554
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID56194
- EU Knowledge Graph item IDQ2554784
- Facebook location ID115456095134627
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- FactGrid item IDQ10407
- FAST ID1206668
- Freebase ID/m/04qdj
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- GeoNames ID7286283
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7007299
- GitHub topiclausanne
- GND ID4034750-3
- Google Maps Customer ID16940078659302256222
- Google Play developer slugVille de Lausanne
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- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0036679
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDLausanne
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)5703821
- Grove Art Online IDT049633
- HDS ID002408
- Hikr waypoint ID17563
- ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID30603
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- IdRef ID221336028
- Instagram usernamevillelausanne
- Interlingual Index IDi84127
- ISNI0000000109444810
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- Latin Place Names IDl/lausannae
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- Library of Congress Authorities IDn79121361
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- Mapy.com IDosm&id=1060620553
- Mindat locality ID247854
- Museum-digital place ID8227
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- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDgeo/1DFE2D58-C7D7-4B58-865E-856FD0C2A12C
- National Library of Brazil ID000071485
- National Library of Greece ID177229
- National Library of Israel ID (old)000977101
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX455778
- NL CR AUT IDxx0029498
- NSK (VIAF) ID000682600
- NSK ID981005659384809366
- OBO Gazetteer ID00004456
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning502665
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3933968
- OpenStreetMap node ID35295150
- OpenStreetMap relation ID1685018
- Ortsnamen.ch ID20001341
- Pinakes city ID320
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- Ringgold ID151050
- RKD thesaurus ID1039
- SBN place IDUSML001955
- SELIBR ID152244
- SNARC IDQ47992
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- SVKKL authority ID0390515-Lausanne-svycarsko
- Swiss Enterprise Identification NumberCHE-114.878.162
- Swiss Films company IDc24518a9465548b5bd24c14d33cca2f8
- Swiss municipality code5586
- Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae IDHP23RTJ6GBDEVC34URJUPJDECA
