Plan-les-Ouates

Plan-les-Ouates is a municipality of the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, on the left bank of the Rhone river. It is first mentioned in 1537 as Plan-des-Vuattes. In 1851 it became an independent municipality when the municipality of Compesières dissolved itself and the municipalities of Bardonnex and Plan-les-Ouates were formed. It covers about 5.86 square kilometres as of 2009, with 44.0 percent farmland and 51.0 percent settled land, and most of its people speak French. Between 1999 and 2009 its population changed at a rate of 58.5 percent, much of it through migration, and it had about 10,600 inhabitants at the end of 2020.