Estavayer-le-Lac

Estavayer-le-Lac
Former municipality
Old City of Estavayer-le-Lac
Coat of arms
Location of Estavayer-le-Lac
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Coordinates: 46°51′00″N 6°50′50″E / 46.85000°N 6.84722°E / 46.85000; 6.84722
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Fribourg
District	Broye
Government
• Mayor	Albert Bachmann
Area [1]
• Total	8.93 km2 (3.45 sq mi)
Elevation	448 m (1,470 ft)
Highest elevation	489 m (1,604 ft)
Lowest elevation (Lake Neuchâtel)	429 m (1,407 ft)
Population  (December 2020)
• Total	6,208
• Density	700/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	1470
SFOS number	2015
Surrounded by	Autavaux, Font, Gorgier (NE), Les Montets, Lully, Montbrelloz, Saint-Aubin-Sauges (NE), Sévaz, Vaumarcus (NE)
Website	www.estavayer-le-lac.ch SFSO statistics

Estavayer-le-Lac [estavaje l(ə) lak]^[2] (Arpitan: Thavalyi-le-Lé (help·info)^[3]) was a municipality of the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It is on the south shore of Lake Neuchâtel and is between Yverdon and Bern. It was the capital of the district of Broye.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Arealstatistik Standard - Gemeinden nach 4 Hauptbereichen". Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
2. ↑ Florence Cattin/Andres Kristol, Estavayer-le-Lac FR (La Broye) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS|LSG), Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 und Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3, S. 339–340.
3. ↑ Dictionnaire-Dikchenéro: Français-Patois/Patê-Franché. Société cantonale des patoisans fribourgeois. Fribourg: 2013. p. 170