Chamonix
Chamonix is a resort in the Haute-Savoie region of France, bordering Italy, at the foot of Mont Blanc. It's regarded as the birthplace of mountaineering and as one of its capitals.Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 8,610 residents
- Description: commune in Haute-Savoie, France
- Postal code: 74400
- Neighbors: Courmayeur
Notable Places in the Area
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc station
Photo: Remontees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc station is a railway station in the commune of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, in the French department of Haute-Savoie.
Chamonix-Aiguille-du-Midi station
Photo: Remontees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chamonix-Aiguille-du-Midi station is a railway station in the commune of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, in the French department of Haute-Savoie.
Temple protestant de Chamonix
Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
Temple protestant de Chamonix is a church.
Localities in the Area
Les Praz
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Les-Praz-de-Chamonix is a mountain village in the French Alps, part of the commune of Chamonix.
Chamonix
- Categories: commune of France, border town and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.9247° or 45° 55' 29" northLongitude
6.8728° or 6° 52' 22" eastPopulation
8,610Elevation
1,060 metres (3,478 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR CXMOpen Location Code
8FQ8WVFF+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 26696275OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3027301Wikidata ID
Q83236Chamonix Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Afrikaans: Chamonix
- Arabic: Chamonix
- Arabic: شامونكس
- Arabic: شاموني
- Arabic: شامونيكس
- Aragonese: Chamonix
- Armenian: Շամոնի
- Armenian: Շամոնի Մոն Բլան
- Arpitan: Chamôni
- Arpitan: Chamônix
- Arpitan: Shamni
- Arpitan: Shamoni
- Arpitan: Shamouni
- Arpitan: Stamouni
- Asturian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Azerbaijani: Şamoni
- Bambara: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Basque: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Basque: Chamonix
- Bavarian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Bavarian: Chamonix
- Belarusian: Шамані
- Bengali: শামোনি-মোঁ-ব্লঁ
- Breton: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Bulgarian: Шамони
- Cajun French: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Catalan: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Catalan: Chamonix
- Cebuano: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Chechen: Шамони-Мон-Блан
- Chinese: Chamonix
- Chinese: 勃朗峰霞慕尼
- Chinese: 夏慕尼
- Chinese: 沙莫尼
- Chinese: 沙莫尼蒙勃朗
- Chinese: 霞慕尼
- Chuvash: Шамони-Мон-Блан
- Corsican: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Croatian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Croatian: Chamonix
- Czech: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Czech: Chamonix
- Danish: Chamonix
- Dimli (individual language): Chamonix
- Dutch: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Dutch: Chamonix
- Egyptian Arabic: شامونى
- English (Historic): Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- English: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Esperanto: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Esperanto: Chamonix
- Estonian: Chamonix
- Faroese: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Finnish: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Finnish: Chamonix
- French: Argentières
- French: Chamonix
- French: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- French: Chamouny
- Friulian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Galician: Chamonix
- Georgian: შამონი
- German: Chamonix
- German: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Greek: Σαμονί-Μον-Μπλαν
- Greek: Σαμονί
- Hebrew: שאמוני-מון-בלאן
- Hebrew: שאמוני-מון-בלן
- Hebrew: שאמוני
- Hebrew: שאמוני מון בלאן
- Hebrew: שמוני-מון-בלאן
- Hebrew: שמוני-מון-בלן
- Hebrew: שמוני
- Hebrew: שמוני מון בלן
- Hungarian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Hungarian: Chamonix
- Icelandic: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Ido: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Indonesian: Chamonix
- Interlingua: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Interlingue: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Irish: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Italian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Italian: Chamonix
- Jamaican Creole English: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Japanese: シャモニー
- Japanese: シャモニー・モンブラン
- Japanese: シャモニー=モンブラン
- Japanese: シャモニー=モン=ブラン
- Kabyle: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Kalaallisut: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Kongo: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Korean: 샤모니
- Korean: 샤모니몽블랑
- Ladin: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Latin: Campus Munitus
- Latin: Chamonix
- Latvian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Latvian: Chamonix
- Latvian: Šamoni
- Latvian: Šamonī
- Ligurian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Limburgan: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Lithuanian: Šamoni
- Lombard: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Lombard: Chamonix
- Low German: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Luxembourgish: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Luxembourgish: Chamonix
- Macedonian: Шамони-Мон-Блан
- Macedonian: Шамони
- Macedonian: Шамони Мон Блан
- Mainfränkisch: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Malagasy: Chamonix
- Malagasy: Éric Fournier
- Malay: Chamonix
- Malayalam: Chamonix
- Malayalam: ഷമൊനി
- Malayalam: ഷമോനി
- Marathi: शामोनि
- Min Nan Chinese: Chamonix
- Minangkabau: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Narom: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Neapolitan: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Norwegian: Chamonix
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chamonix
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chamonix
- Occitan (post 1500): Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Ossetian: Шамони-Мон-Блан
- Papiamento: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Persian: شامونی
- Persian: شامونیکس
- Picard: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Piemontese: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Polish: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Polish: Chamonix
- Portuguese: Chamonix
- Portuguese: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Prussian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Quechua: Chamonix
- Romagnol: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Romanian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Romanian: Chamonix
- Romansh: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Russian: Шамони-Мон-Блан
- Russian: Шамони
- Sardinian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Scots: Chamonix
- Scottish Gaelic: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Serbian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Serbian: Шамони
- Serbian: Шамони Мон Блан
- Serbo-Croatian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Serbo-Croatian: Chamonix
- Serbo-Croatian: Šamoni
- Sicilian: Chamonix
- Silesian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Slovak: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Slovak: Chamonix
- Slovak: Chamonix Mont-Blanc
- Slovenian: Chamonix
- Spanish: Chamonix
- Spanish: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Spanish: Chamonix Mont-Blanc
- Spanish: Chamonix Mont Blanc
- Swahili: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Swedish: Campus Munitus
- Swedish: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Swedish: Chamonix
- Swiss German: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Tatar: Шамони
- Thai: ชามอนี
- Tosk Albanian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Turkish: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Turkish: Chamonix
- Ukrainian: Шамоні-Мон-Блан
- Ukrainian: Шамоні-Монблан
- Ukrainian: Шамоні
- Urdu: شامونی
- Uzbek: Chamonix
- Venetian: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Vietnamese: Chamonix
- Vlaams: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Volapük: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Walloon: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Waray (Philippines): Chamonix
- Welsh: Chamonix
- Wolof: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Wu Chinese: 勃朗峰霞慕尼
- Zulu: Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Charmonix-Mont-Blanc
Other Places Named Chamonix
In the Area
- les NantsHamlet
- Sur le RocherLocality
- Les MoëttieuxNeighbourhood
- Plan des ChablettesLocality
- les RosièresHamlet
- Les FavrandsNeighbourhood
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