Bretigny-sur-Morrens (, literally Bretigny on Morrens) is a municipality in the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. History Bretigny-sur-Morrens is first mentioned in 1224 as Britignie. Geography Bretigny-sur-Morrens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 64.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 24.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 10.8% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.0%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.7%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 43.0% is used for growing crops and 19.6% is pastures, while 2.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. The municipality was part of the Echallens District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Bretigny-sur-Morrens became part of the new district of Gros-de-Vaud. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per bend sinister Argent and Gules, a ram rampant counterchanged. Demographics Bretigny-sur-Morrens has a population () of . , 9.8% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 31.4%. It has changed at a rate of 14.3% due to migration and at a rate of 17.3% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (535 or 95.0%), with German being second most common (19 or 3.4%) and Italian being third (3 or 0.5%). Of the population in the municipality 119 or about 21.1% were born in Bretigny-sur-Morrens and lived there in 2000. There were 279 or 49.6% who were born in the same canton, while 82 or 14.6% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 73 or 13.0% were born outside of Switzerland. In there were 15 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 4 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens increased by 11 while the foreign population increased by 1. At the same time, there were 2 non-Swiss men who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 4 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 4