Villars-le-Grand is a former municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs. History Villars-le-Grand is first mentioned in 1246 as Uilar. Geography Villars-le-Grand has an area, , of . Of this area, or 87.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 3.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.9% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.2%. Out of the forested land, 1.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 77.4% is used for growing crops and 7.9% is pastures, while 2.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the Avenches District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Villars-le-Grand became part of the new district of Broye-Vully. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Or, a Grill Sable. Demographics Villars-le-Grand has a population () of 275. , 5.4% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -3.5%. It has changed at a rate of -1.8% due to migration and at a rate of -1.1% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (262 or 90.3%), with German being second most common (24 or 8.3%) and Portuguese being third (2 or 0.7%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian. Of the population in the municipality 134 or about 46.2% were born in Villars-le-Grand and lived there in 2000. There were 55 or 19.0% who were born in the same canton, while 72 or 24.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 16 or 5.5% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 2 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 2 while the foreign population increased by 2. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 10 and