page_title: Mont-Noble
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Mont-Noble / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Photographie du géant couché de Nax par Hervé Grand en Juillet 2005.
context_page_description: Mont-Noble is a municipality in the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of the municipalities of Mase, Vernamiège and Nax.
context_section_description: Mont-Noble has an area, as of 2011, of 43 square kilometers (17 sq mi).  Of this area, 32.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 39.5% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 2.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and 25.0% is unproductive land.
  The village of Mase is located in the Hérens district on the right bank of the Borgne and the left bank of the Rhone in the Val d'Hérens at an elevation of 1,345 m (4,413 ft).
  Nax is situated at the entrance to the Hérens valley near a rocky promontory which may provided its name, from the Latin: nasus, nose.
caption: Rocky promontory near Nax
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