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

[3] Following the fall of the Second French Empire, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte and his wife, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, resided in exile at Château de Prangins, where Charles I of Austria and his family would later take residence briefly, beginning 20 May 1919.

Prangins has an area, as of 2009[update], of 6 square kilometers (2.3 sq mi).

[5] The municipality is located on a terrace on the north shore of the Petit-Lac portion of Lake Geneva.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (2,439 or 77.8%), with German being second most common (248 or 7.9%) and English being third (185 or 5.9%).

[10] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Prangins is; 511 children or 13.4% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 515 teenagers or 13.5% are between 10 and 19.

The entire village of Prangins is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

The Aerodrome La Côte (ICAO: LSGP) is situated between Prangins and Gland which hosted a fly-in in 2009.

In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 18.77% of the vote.

[9] There were 1,629 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.9% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 25, of which 23 were in agriculture and 2 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 41 or 8.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 14 or 2.9% were in the movement and storage of goods, 41 or 8.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 7 or 1.4% were in the information industry, 8 or 1.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 24 or 4.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 23 or 4.7% were in education and 134 or 27.6% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 1,092 or 34.9% were Roman Catholic, while 1,085 or 34.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

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

The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years.