Lausanne District
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Lausanne District District de Lausanne |
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| Country |
 Switzerland
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| Canton |
 Vaud
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| Capital | Lausanne |
| Area | |
| • Total | 65.17 km2 (25.16 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Total | 161,202 |
| • Density | 2,500/km2 (6,400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Municipalities | 6 |
Lausanne District (French: District de Lausanne) is a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The seat of the district is the city of Lausanne.
Lausanne has an area, as of 2009[update], of 65.17 square kilometers (25.16 sq mi). Of this area, 17.79 km2 (6.87 sq mi) or 27.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 20.13 km2 (7.77 sq mi) or 30.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 27.1 km2 (10.5 sq mi) or 41.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.09 km2 (22 acres) or 0.1% is unproductive land.
Lausanne has a population (as of December 2015[update]) of 161,202.
Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (159,559 or 79.6%), with German being second most common (8,534 or 4.3%) and Italian being third (7,942 or 4.0%). There are 99 people who speak Romansh.
Of the population in the district 46,742 or about 23.3% were born in Lausanne and lived there in 2000. There were 43,411 or 21.7% who were born in the same canton, while 34,479 or 17.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 68,966 or 34.4% were born outside of Switzerland.
In 2008[update] there were 978 live births to Swiss citizens and 671 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 976 deaths of Swiss citizens and 141 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 2 while the foreign population increased by 530. There were 15 Swiss men and 70 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland. At the same time, there were 2323 non-Swiss men and 1903 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 an increase of 1108 and the non-Swiss population increased by 2428 people. This represents a population growth rate of 2.5%.
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