Poliez-le-Grand is a former municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The municipalities of Dommartin, Naz, Poliez-le-Grand and Sugnens merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Montilliez. History Poliez-le-Grand is first mentioned around 1160-79 as Poleto. In 1225 it was mentioned as Pollie lo Grant. Geography Poliez-le-Grand has an area, , of . Of this area, or 79.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 11.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 8.5% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 4.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 63.1% is used for growing crops and 15.2% is pastures. The municipality was part of the Echallens District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Poliez-le-Grand became part of the new district of Gros-de-Vaud. The municipality is located on the right bank of the Talent river. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Bendy wavy of Eight Gules and Argent. Demographics Poliez-le-Grand has a population () of 692. , 12.5% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 31.3%. It has changed at a rate of 26.4% due to migration and at a rate of 6.1% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (497 or 94.1%), with German being second most common (20 or 3.8%) and Spanish being third (4 or 0.8%). There are 2 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh. Of the population in the municipality 139 or about 26.3% were born in Poliez-le-Grand and lived there in 2000. There were 254 or 48.1% who were born in the same canton, while 70 or 13.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 50 or 9.5% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 6 live births to Swiss citizens and were 2 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 4 while the foreign population remained the same. There was 1 Swiss woman who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 2 non-Swiss men and 4 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another