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Bex
Country Switzerland Canton Vaud District Aigle 46°15′N 7°1′E / 46.25°N 7.017°E / 46.25; 7.017Coordinates: 46°15′N 7°1′E / 46.25°N 7.017°E / 46.25; 7.017
Population	5,751 (2003[update])
- Density	60 /km2 (154 /sq mi)
Area	96.6 km2 (37.3 sq mi)
Elevation	424 m (1,391 ft)
Postal code	1880
SFOS number	5402
Mayor	Michel Flückiger
Surrounded by	Chamoson (VS), Collonges (VS), Conthey (VS), Fully (VS), Gryon, Lavey-Morcles, Leytron (VS), Massongex (VS), Monthey (VS), Ollon, Ormont-Dessus, Saint-Maurice (VS)
Twin towns	Tuttlingen (Germany)
Website	www.bex.ch Profile, SFSO statistics
Bex

Bex is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle. It has an area of 96.60 km², an altitude of 424 m, and a population of 5709. It is a few miles south of its sister town municipality of Aigle.

Contents 1 Geography 2 Transportation and Railroads 3 Notable People of Bex 4 The Bex Salt Mine

[edit] Geography

Bex sits on the east side of the Rhone River in a wide valley surrounded on the east by the Bernese Alps and west by the Chablais Alps. Famous Swiss and French ski resorts are nearby. It is on Swiss National Route 9. Bex is connected to Les Diablerets by the mountain pass Col de la Croix

[edit] Transportation and Railroads

Bex is a stop on the Swiss Federal Railway SBB/CFF high speed Simplon route from Italy (Domodossola) and southern Switzerland to Lausanne then on to Geneva and Bern. Bex is also the terminus of the BVD Chemin de fer Bex-Villars-Bretaye railway which is one of four railways of the local TPC company, the Transports Publics de Chablais. The BVD runs east from Bex to Villars and Bretaye. At nearby Aigle, connections are available at the Aigle SBB/CFF depot to the other three very scenic narrow gauge railways of TPC.

Transports Publics du Chablais uses the motto "Depuis plus de cent ans et contre toute attente, des lignes des TPC reunissent plaine et montagne, Vaud et Valais, ville et campagne, terres catholiques et protestantes." Translated roughly: "For over 100 years and contrary to all expectations, the railways of TPC have joined plain and mountain, town and country, of the Vaud and Valais districts of Switzerland, land of both Catholics and Protestants." The ASD, the AL, and the BVB railways operate within the Canton of Vaud. The AOMC also operates into the Canton of Valais when it leaves Aigle and crosses the Rhone river to reach Monthey and Champery. The TPC "motto" refers to the religious composition and history of the region historically known as the Chablais. In 1846-7 the Valais canton attempted to secede from Switzerland with the intention of joining a Catholic confederation of cantons called the Sonderbund, but this was put down by Swiss Federal troops in the brief and relatively bloodles Sonderbund civil war. See Sonderbund Wikipedia.

The TPC website provides excellent topographical color maps of the BVD and the other three TPC railways with route descriptions, although in French. Click on this website: http://www.tpc.ch/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&|temid=94 (and =92, =93, =95 address endings.) See the Bex, Chablais, Vaud, and Valais Wikipedia websites for more information.

[edit] Notable People of Bex

• Catherine Mabillard, ski mountaineer

[edit] The Bex Salt Mine

Bex is the site of a famous salt mine.^{[citation needed]}

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