district de Conthey

Geschichte

The district of Conthey is an administrative district in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It has a population of.The Conthey district was created as the 13th district of the Valais as the canton joined the restored Swiss Confederacy in 1815, accounting for the thirteen stars in the coat of arms of Valais.MunicipalitiesIt contains the following municipalities:Coat of armsThe blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, two Lions rampant combatant Gules holding together a Sword Or inverted.DemographicsConthey has a population of. Most of the population speaks French (18,197 or 90.6%) as their first language, German is the second most common (533 or 2.7%) and Portuguese is the third (485 or 2.4%). There are 266 people who speak Italian and 4 people who speak Romansh., the gender distribution of the population was 49.6% male and 50.4% female. The population was made up of 9,234 Swiss men (39.3% of the population) and 2,426 (10.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 9,769 Swiss women (41.6%) and 2,066 (8.8%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the district 9,952 or about 49.5% were born in Conthey and lived there in 2000. There were 4,710 or 23.4% who were born in the same canton, while 1,848 or 9.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 2,845 or 14.2% were born outside of Switzerland.