Soral

Geschichte

Soral is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.HistorySoral is first mentioned in 1236 as Sorraz.GeographySoral has an area, of 2.95km2. Of this area, 2.44km2 or 82.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.12km2 or 4.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.37km2 or 12.5% is settled (buildings or roads).Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.7%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.7% of the area Out of the forested land, 2.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 62.4% is used for growing crops and 3.7% is pastures, while 16.6% is used for orchards or vine crops.The municipality is the southern most municipality of the canton and lies on the Swiss-French border between Saint-Julien-en-Genevois and Viry, both in the Haute-Savoie department. The municipality of Soral consists of the sub-sections or villages of Plaine-du-Loup, Les Lolliets and Entre-Deux-Vignobles.DemographicsSoral has a population of., 16.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 21.3%. It has changed at a rate of 37.7% due to migration and at a rate of -15.5% due to births and deaths.Most of the population speaks French (542 or 90.8%), with German being second most common (18 or 3.0%) and English being third (13 or 2.2%). There are 3 people who speak Italian.