Trient (French pronunciation: [tʁiɛ̃]) is a municipality in the district of Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Trient has an area, as of 2011[update], of 39.5 square kilometers (15.3 sq mi).

[4] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure on a plane in front of mountains Vert a Chamois statant Argent.

[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (125 or 96.2%) as their first language, German is the second most common (2 or 1.5%) and Portuguese is the third (2 or 1.5%).

[4] The historical population is given in the following chart:[11] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 39.31% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 83 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 76.1%.

[13] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 72 votes were cast, of which 5 or about 6.9% were invalid.

[4] There were 55 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.6% of the workforce.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 107 or 82.3% were Roman Catholic, while 12 or 9.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

[8] As of 2000[update], there were 6 students from Trient who attended schools outside the municipality.