Gollion is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Morges. History Gollion is first mentioned in 1228 as Gollun. Geography Gollion has an area, , of . Of this area, or 80.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 11.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.3% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.3%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 64.7% is used for growing crops and 13.1% is pastures, while 2.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was part of the Cossonay District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Gollion became part of the new district of Morges. The municipality is located on a plateau above the Venoge river. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert, three Buckles two and one Argent. Demographics Gollion has a population () of . , 15.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 9.7%. It has changed at a rate of 4.1% due to migration and at a rate of 5.7% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (510 or 90.3%), with German being second most common (24 or 4.2%) and Portuguese being third (11 or 1.9%). There are 5 people who speak Italian. Of the population in the municipality 153 or about 27.1% were born in Gollion and lived there in 2000. There were 248 or 43.9% who were born in the same canton, while 75 or 13.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 79 or 14.0% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 5 live births to Swiss citizens and were 4 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 1 while the foreign population remained the same. There were 2 Swiss men and 2 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 3 non-Swiss men and 4 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss