Broye (district)
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Broye District District de la Broye Broyebezirk |
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| Country | Switzerland | |
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 Fribourg
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| Capital | Estavayer-le-Lac | |
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| • Total | 173.88 km2 (67.14 sq mi) | |
| Population (31 December 2015) | ||
| • Total | 30,846 | |
| • Density | 180/km2 (460/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| Municipalities | 20 | |
| Website | www |
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Broye District is one of the seven districts of the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, lying in the vicinity of Lake Neuchâtel. Its territory is non-contiguous and Broye is fragmented into four parts, three of which exist as exclaves from the canton of Fribourg. It has a population of 30,846 (as of 31 December 2015).
Broye consists of the following municipalities, of which Estavayer-le-Lac is the capital:
The blazon of the district coat of arms is Argent, a [double] Rose Gules seeded Or and barbed Vert.
Broye has a population (as of December 2015[update]) of 30,846. As of 2008[update], 13.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals.
Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (18,694 or 87.7%) as their first language, German is the second most common (1,341 or 6.3%) and Portuguese is the third (318 or 1.5%). There are 177 people who speak Italian and 6 people who speak Romansh.
As of 2008[update], the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. The population was made up of 10,860 Swiss men (41.9% of the population) and 2,011 (7.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 11,178 Swiss women (43.1%) and 1,892 (7.3%) non-Swiss women.
Of the population in the district, 7,750 or about 36.4% were born in Broye and lived there in 2000. There were 5,240 or 24.6% who were born in the same canton, while 4,922 or 23.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 2,717 or 12.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
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