Haute-Savoie (Department, France)

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• France
• France: Metropolitan departments
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• Haute-Savoie (Department, France): Municipal flags
  • Annemasse
  • Bonneville
  • La Clusaz
  • Cluses
  • Étrembières
  • Évian-les-Bains
  • Le Grand-Bornand
  • Morzine
  • Saint-Jean-de-Sixt
  • Thônes
  • Thonon-les-Bains
  • Veigy-Foncenex
  • Ville-la-Grand
  • Yvoire
• Haute-Savoie (Department, France): Yacht clubs
• Lake of Annecy (Haute-Savoie, France): Navigation signals

Administrative data

Code: 74
Region: Rhône-Alpes
Traditional province: Savoy (former Intendance of Annecy; Provinces of Chablais, Faucigny and Genevois)
Bordering departments: Ain, Savoie
Bordering countries: Italy (regions of Valle d'Aosta), Switzerland (cantons of Geneva and Valais)

Area: 4,388 km²
Population (1995): 617,300 inhabitants

Préfecture: Annecy
Sous-préfectures: Bonneville, Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, Thonon-les-Bains
Subdivisions: 4 arrondissements, 33 cantons, 290 communes.

The department (lit., Upper Savoy) is named after the former Duchy of Savoy (Savoie).