Marchissy is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is located in the district of Nyon. History Marchissy is first mentioned in 1235 as Marchisie. Geography Marchissy has an area, , of . Of this area, or 31.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 64.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 2.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 62.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 15.0% is used for growing crops and 5.3% is pastures and 11.2% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the Aubonne District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Marchissy became part of the new district of Nyon. The municipality is located at the foot of the Jura Mountains on the road to Col du Marchairuz. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Marchissy. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, on a Bend sinister vert a Lime-tree/linden tree Flower Or. Demographics Marchissy has a population () of . , 14.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 24.4%. It has changed at a rate of 20.7% due to migration and at a rate of 4.9% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (310 or 89.1%), with German being second most common (14 or 4.0%) and English being third (8 or 2.3%). There are 3 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 112 or about 32.2% were born in Marchissy and lived there in 2000. There were 84 or 24.1% who were born in the same canton, while 95 or 27.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 56 or 16.1% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 4 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 4 deaths of Swiss