Savoie
Savoie is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Southeastern France. Located in the French Alps, its prefecture is Chambéry. In 2019, Savoie had a population of 436,434.Together with Haute-Savoie, it is one of the two departments of the historical region of Savoy; the Duchy of Savoy was annexed by France in 1860, following the signature of the Treaty of Turin.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Chambéry
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Chambéry is a beautiful town in the Rhône-Alpes region of France and the birthplace and historic capital of Savoie.
Aix-les-Bains
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Aix-les-Bains is a town and lakeside resort in the French Alps, in the department of Savoie.
Val-d'Isère
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Val-d'Isère, nicknamed Valdi, is a commune of the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in southeastern France.
Destinations
Les Trois Vallées
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Les Trois Vallées is in Savoie and is one of the large interlinked Alpine skiing areas of the French Alps.
Bourg-Saint-Maurice
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Bourg-Saint-Maurice is a town in the French Alps. It is at the foot of the Les Arcs skiing area, a group of pistes which can be found just below the Aiguille Rouge summit.
Tignes
Tignes is a commune in the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France, known for the highest skiable area and the longest ski season in Europe.Bozel
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Bozel is situated in the Tarentaise Valley, in the department of Savoie, From 380 m to 3 855m, the…
Vanoise National Park
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Vanoise National Park is the first French national park in the Savoie department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, established in 1963.
Vanoise
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Vanoise is a beautiful mountain area in the French Alps south of Mont Blanc and linked to the Italian area Gran Paradiso in the Valle d'Aosta region.
Les Arcs
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Les Arcs is a ski resort located in Savoie, France, in the Tarentaise Valley town of Bourg-Saint-Maurice.
La Toussuire
La Toussuire is one of the six ski resorts of Les Sybelles, the 4th biggest ski areas in France.Savoie
- Type: department of France with 425,000 residents
- Description: French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of the French Alps
- Neighbors: Aosta Valley, Haute-Savoie, Hautes-Alpes, Isère and Piedmont
- Location: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude of centre
45.4681° or 45° 28' 5" northLongitude of centre
6.4855° or 6° 29' 8" eastPopulation
425,000Elevation
1,885 metres (6,184 feet)GeoNames ID
2975517Wikidata ID
Q12745Savoie Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Savoie
- Albanian: Savoia
- Arabic: Savoie
- Arabic: سافوا
- Aragonese: Saboya
- Aragonese: Savoya
- Armenian: Սավոյ
- Arpitan: Savouè-d’Avâl
- Arpitan: Savouè
- Asturian: Saboya
- Azerbaijani: Savoyya
- Basque: Savoia
- Bavarian: Savoie
- Bavarian: Savoyen
- Belarusian: Савоя (дэпартамент)
- Belarusian: Савоя
- Bengali: সাভুয়ে
- Breton: Savoia
- Breton: Savoie
- Bulgarian: Савоа
- Catalan: Savoia
- Cebuano: Savoie
- Chechen: Савойя
- Chechen: Севваь
- Chinese: Savoie
- Chinese: 萨瓦省
- Chinese: 薩華
- Chuvash: Савойя
- Czech: Savojsko
- Danish: Savoie
- Dimli (individual language): Savoie
- Dutch: Savoie (departement)
- Dutch: Savoie
- Egyptian Arabic: سافوا
- Egyptian Arabic: ساڤوا
- English: Savoy
- Esperanto: Savoie
- Esperanto: Savojo
- Estonian: Savoia
- Estonian: Savoia departemang
- Finnish: Savoie
- French: 73
- French: Département de la Savoie
- French: Savoie
- Galician: Departamento de Savoia
- Galician: Savoia
- Georgian: სავოია
- German: Departement Savoyen
- German: Département Savoie
- German: Savoie
- German: Savoyen
- Greek: Σαβοΐα
- Greek: Σαβουά
- Gujarati: સાવોઈ
- Hakka Chinese: Savoie-sén
- Hausa: Savoie-sén
- Hebrew: סבואה
- Hindi: सवोई
- Hungarian: Savoie
- Indonesian: Savoie
- Interlingua: Departimento Savoie
- Irish: Savoie
- Italian: Savoia
- Japanese: サヴォワ
- Japanese: サヴォワ県
- Kannada: ಸವೊಯಿ
- Kazakh: Савойя
- Kongo: Savoie
- Korean: 사부아주
- Ladin: Savoie
- Ladino: Savoie
- Latin: Sabaudia
- Latvian: Savoja
- Limburgan: Savoie
- Lithuanian: Savoja
- Lombard: Savoie
- Low German: Savoie
- Luxembourgish: Departement Savoie
- Macedonian: Савоја
- Malagasy: Savoie
- Malay: Savoie
- Marathi: साव्वा
- Min Nan Chinese: Savoie
- Nepali: साभोए
- Northern Frisian: Savoie
- Northern Sami: Savoie
- Norwegian: Savoie
- Norwegian Bokmål: Savoie
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Departementet Savoie
- Occitan (post 1500): Savòia
- Ossetian: Савойя (департамент)
- Ossetian: Савойя
- Pampanga: Savoie
- Persian: ساووآ
- Persian: سووآ
- Piemontese: Dipartiment ëd la Savòja
- Polish: Sabaudia
- Portuguese: Saboia
- Portuguese: Sabóia
- Romanian: Savoie
- Romanian: departamentul Savoie
- Russian: Савойя
- Sardinian: Savoja
- Scots: Savoie
- Scottish Gaelic: Savoie
- Serbian: Савоја
- Serbo-Croatian: Savoie
- Sinhala: සැවෝයි
- Slovak: Savoie
- Slovenian: Savoie
- South Azerbaijani: ساووآ
- Spanish: Saboya
- Spanish: Savoya
- Swahili: Savoie
- Swedish: Savoie
- Swiss German: Département Savoie
- Tajik: Департаменти Савойя
- Tamil: சாவோய்
- Telugu: సవోయీ
- Thai: จังหวัดซาวัว
- Tosk Albanian: Département Savoie
- Turkish: Savoie
- Ukrainian: Савоя
- Urdu: ساووا
- Uzbek: Savoie
- Venetian: Savoja
- Vietnamese: Savoie
- Volapük: Savoie
- Waray (Philippines): Savoie
- Welsh: Savoie
- Western Panjabi: ضلع سیواۓ
- Wu Chinese: 萨瓦省
- Yue Chinese: 薩華
- სავოიის დეპარტამენტი
- 사부아
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