Ferney-Voltaire
Ferney-Voltaire is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. It lies between the Jura Mountains and the Swiss border; it forms part of the metropolitan area of Geneva.
- Type: Town with 10,900 residents
- Description: commune in Ain, France
- Also known as: “01160”, “Fernex”, “Ferney”, “Ферне”, “Ферней”, and “فيرني-فولتير، اين”
- Postal code: 01210
Places of Interest
Highlights: Ferney-Voltaire fountain and Château de Voltaire.
Église Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption de Ferney-Voltaire
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prévessin-Moëns and Collex-Bossy.
Ferney-Voltaire
- Categories: commune of France, border city, and locality
- Location: Ferney-Voltaire, Arrondissement of Gex, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude
46.25671° or 46° 15′ 24″ north
Longitude
6.10964° or 6° 6′ 35″ east
Population
10,900
Elevation
425 metres (1,394 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“Ferney-Voltaire”
UN/LOCODE
FR FEV
Open location code
8FR87445+MV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ferney-Voltaire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Albanian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Arabic: “فيرني-فولتير، أين”
- Arabic: “فيرني-فولتير”
- Aragonese: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Armenian: “Ֆեռնե Վոլտեր”
- Armenian: “Ֆերնե Վոլտեր”
- Arpitan: “Farnê”
- Arpitan: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Asturian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Azerbaijani: “Ferne-Volter”
- Bambara: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Basque: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Bavarian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Bosnian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Breton: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Buginese: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Cajun French: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Catalan: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Cebuano: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Chechen: “ФегӀне-ВольтегӀ”
- Chinese: “費內-伏爾泰”
- Chinese: “费内-伏尔泰”
- Chinese: “费尔梅－伏尔泰”
- Corsican: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Croatian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Czech: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Danish: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Dutch: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيرنى فولتير”
- Esperanto: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Estonian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Faroese: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Finnish: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- French: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Friulian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Galician: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- German: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Hungarian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Icelandic: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Ido: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Indonesian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Interlingua: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Interlingue: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Irish: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Italian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Japanese: “フェルネ＝ヴォルテール”
- Japanese: “フェルネー＝ヴォルテール”
- Jèrriais: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Kabyle: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Kalaallisut: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Kongo: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Kurdish: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Ladin: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Latin: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Latvian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Ligurian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Limburgan: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Lithuanian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Lombard: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Low German: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Luxembourgish: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Mainfränkisch: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Malagasy: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Malay: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Minangkabau: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Neapolitan: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Norwegian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Pampanga: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Papiamento: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Persian: “فرنی-ولتر”
- Picard: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Piemontese: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Polish: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Portuguese: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Prussian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Romagnol: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Romanian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Romansh: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Russian: “Ферне-Вольтер”
- Russian: “Ферней-Вольтер”
- Sardinian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Scots: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Serbian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Sicilian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Silesian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Slovak: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Slovenian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Spanish: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Swahili: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Swedish: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Swiss German: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Tagalog: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Tatar: “Ферне-Вольтер”
- Turkish: “Ferney Voltaire”
- Turkish: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Ukrainian: “Ферне-Вольтер”
- Urdu: “فرنی-وولٹیئر”
- Uzbek: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Venetian: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Vietnamese: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Vlaams: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Volapük: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Walloon: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Welsh: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Wolof: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Yue Chinese: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Zeeuws: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- Zulu: “Ferney-Voltaire”
- “Ferney-Voltaire”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Paimboeuf and Jargilieres.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Office de Tourisme de Ferney-Voltaire and Ferney-Voltaire.
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