Romandy ( or ) is the French-speaking part of western Switzerland. In 2020, about 2 million people, or 22.8% of the Swiss population, lived in Romandy. The majority of the population lives in the western part of the country, especially the region along Lake Geneva, connecting Geneva, Vaud and the Lower Valais. French is the sole official language in four Swiss cantons: Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel, and Jura. Additionally, French and German have co-official status in three cantons: Fribourg/Freiburg, Valais/Wallis, and Berne/Bern. Name The adjective (feminine ) is a regional dialectal variant of (modern French , i.e. "Roman"); in Old French used as a term for the Gallo-Romance vernaculars. Use of the adjective (with its unetymological final ) in reference to the Franco-Provençal dialects can be traced to the 15th century; it is recorded, as , in a document written in Fribourg in 1424 and becomes current in the 17th and 18th centuries in Vaud and Fribourg; it was adopted in Geneva in the 19th century, but its usage never spread outside of what is now French-speaking Switzerland. The term has become widely used since World War I; before World War I and during the 19th century, the term "French Switzerland" was used, reflecting the cultural and political prestige of France (the canton of Vaud having been created by Napoleon out of former Bernese subject territories, while Geneva, Valais and Jura were even briefly joined to France, as the , and , respectively). is used in contrast to ("Alemannic Switzerland") the term for Alemannic German speaking Switzerland. Formed by analogy is ("Italian Switzerland"), which is composed of Ticino and of a part of . In Swiss German, French-speaking Switzerland is known as or , and the French-speaking Swiss as , using the old Germanic term for "Celts" also used in English of Welsh (see ). The terms and are also used in written Swiss Standard German but in more formal contexts they are sometimes exchanged for ("French-speaking Switzerland") or ("French Switzerland"). Simple "western Switzerland" may also be used as a loose synonym. Politics "Romandy" is not an official territorial division of Switzerland any more than there is a clear linguistic boundary. For instance, substantial parts of the canton of Fribourg and the western canton of Bern are traditionally bilingual, most prominently in Seeland around the lakes of Morat, Neuchâtel and Bienne (Biel). French is the sole official language in four Swiss