Montreux

==Geography==
[[File:Montreux2004.jpg|thumb|left|Montreux and Lake Geneva]]
[[File:ETH-BIB-Montreux-LBS H1-012365.tif|thumb|Aerial view (1949)]]
Montreux has an area, {{as of|2009|lc=on}}, of {{cvt|33.41|km2|mi2}}. Of this area, {{cvt|8.34|km2|mi2}} or 25.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while {{cvt|16.80|km2|mi2}} or 50.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, {{cvt|6.68|km2|mi2}} or 20.0% is settled (buildings or roads), {{cvt|0.09|km2|acre}} or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes and {{cvt|1.55|km2|mi2}} or 4.6% is unproductive land.<ref name=BFS_land>[https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/raum-umwelt/bodennutzung-bedeckung/gesamtspektrum-regionalen-stufen/gemeinden.assetdetail.11007176.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200816160612/https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/raum-umwelt/bodennutzung-bedeckung/gesamtspektrum-regionalen-stufen/gemeinden.assetdetail.11007176.html |date=2020-08-16 }} 2018 data {{in lang|de}} accessed 26 July 2020</ref>

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 11.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.4%. Out of the forested land, 46.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.5% is used for growing crops and 9.9% is pastures, while 1.2% is used for orchards or vine crops and 13.7% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.<ref name=BFS_land/>

The municipality was part of the [[Vevey District]] until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Montreux became part of the new district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut.<ref name=Mutation>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/infothek/nomenklaturen/blank/blank/gem_liste/02.html Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113231755/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/infothek/nomenklaturen/blank/blank/gem_liste/02.html |date=2015-11-13 }} {{in lang|de}} accessed 4 April 2011</ref>

The municipality stretches from Lake Geneva to the foothills of the Swiss Alps (Rochers-de-Naye). It includes the former municipalities of Montreux-Les Planches (until 1952 Les Planches) and Montreux-Le Châtelard (until 1952 Le Châtelard). It was formed in 1962 with the merger of the two former municipalities.