Mies (French pronunciation: [mi]) is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

To the southwest lies Versoix, in the Canton of Geneva and to the northwest Chavannes-de-Bogis, which houses a major shopping mall.

Mies is separated from the neighbouring commune of Tannay by a small ravine containing a stream called le nant du Torry.

It is thought that the name Mies comes from its location of half way ("mi-") between Geneva and Nyon, or maybe because it is halfway between Versoix and Coppet.

Remains of settlements have been found all the way back to the Bronze Age, but the first documentary reference to Mies was in 1345 under the name Miez.

[3] Later on, additional ways of writing the village appeared: Miez, Mier, Myez, Myer, Myes and only in 1912 Mies.

With the conquest of the Canton de Vaud (Waadt, in German) by Bern in the year 1536, the village came under the administration of the district of Nyon.

Mies thus became Switzerland's border village - with France - from 1536 until the creation of the Canton of Geneva in 1815.

The playing fields of Mies include a full size football field, basketball pitch, boules (pétanque), running track, tennis courts, and children's playground with swings, climbing frames and other children's games.

The clubhouse has showers and toilets, as well as a snack bar, but these facilities are generally only open when football matches are being played on the sports field.

Photos The Domaine de Veytay contains a nature reserve known as la Gouille Marion covering 7 hectares.

However, in 1972 l'Association pour la Protection des Bois de la Rive Droit du Lac (Society for the protection of woodlands on the north side of the lake), carried out work which gave birth to the large pond in which two small islands were built.

In 1973 la Gouille Marion was classified as a nature reserve and it is forbidden to leave the paths during the nesting season from 1 March to 1 August.

Photos Mies has a second nature reserve, Les Crénées, on the lakeshore, which is also private property, but not accessible to the public.

Mies lies on the main railway line between Geneva and Lausanne, built in 1858.

It is a very pleasant walk along mainly pedestrian and cycle tracks from La Bécassière to Mies village.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per pale Or and Azure, from a Hill Sable lined Argent rising three Pine-trees Vert.

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 24.1% of the vote.

In the tertiary sector; 75 or 17.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 10 or 2.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 4 or 0.9% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 1.2% were in the information industry, 4 or 0.9% were the insurance or financial industry, 51 or 11.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 26 or 6.1% were in education and 97 or 22.7% were in health care.

In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.