Gex
Gex is a commune in the department of Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, eastern France and the subprefecture of the department. It lies 5 km from the Swiss border and 16 km from Geneva. It is a subprefecture of Ain.Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 13,100 residents
- Description: commune in Ain, France
- Also known as: “01173” and “Gex, Ain”
- Postal code: 01170
- Neighbors: Divonne-les-Bains
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lavoir de Gex and Portes Sarrazines.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vesancy and Ségny.
Vesancy
Village
Photo: Patrub01, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vesancy is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. The commune has an average elevation of 650 m above sea level.
Ségny
Village
Photo: Kriddl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ségny, also written Segny, is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Ségny is situated in the east of the department, in a district of the Lake Geneva / River Rhône basin known as the Pays de Gex. Ségny is situated 4½ km south of Gex.
Mijoux
Village
Photo: Prankster, Public domain.
Mijoux is a commune and village in the Ain department in eastern France. Mijoux is situated 6 km northwest of Gex.
Gex
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Gex, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.3338° or 46° 20′ 2″ northLongitude
6.0577° or 6° 3′ 28″ eastPopulation
13,100Elevation
616 metres (2,021 feet)Open location code
8FR883M5+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 26694644OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6424536Wikidata ID
Q202451
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gex” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gex”
- Albanian: “Gex, Ain”
- Albanian: “Gex”
- Arabic: “جكس”
- Arabic: “غيكس، أين”
- Arabic: “غيكس، اين”
- Arabic: “غيكس”
- Aragonese: “Gex”
- Armenian: “Ժեկս”
- Armenian: “Ժեքս”
- Arpitan: “Gês”
- Arpitan: “Gex”
- Asturian: “Gex”
- Azerbaijani: “Jeks”
- Bambara: “Gex”
- Basque: “Gex”
- Bavarian: “Gex”
- Breton: “Gex”
- Buginese: “Gex, Ain”
- Buginese: “Gex”
- Bulgarian: “Же”
- Cajun French: “Gex”
- Catalan: “Gex”
- Cebuano: “Gex”
- Chechen: “Жекс”
- Chinese: “Gex, Ain”
- Chinese: “Gex”
- Chinese: “热克斯”
- Chinese: “熱克斯”
- Corsican: “Gex”
- Croatian: “Gex”
- Czech: “Gex”
- Danish: “Gex”
- Dimli (individual language): “Gex”
- Dutch: “Gex”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيكس”
- Esperanto: “Gex”
- Estonian: “Gex”
- Faroese: “Gex”
- Finnish: “Gex”
- French: “Gex”
- Friulian: “Gex”
- Galician: “Gex, Ain”
- Galician: “Gex”
- German: “Gex-la-Ville”
- German: “Gex”
- German: “Geyz”
- German: “Jacium”
- German: “Les Maladières”
- German: “Pitegny”
- German: “Tougin”
- Greek: “Ζεξ”
- Hungarian: “Gex”
- Icelandic: “Gex”
- Ido: “Gex”
- Indonesian: “Gex, Ain”
- Indonesian: “Gex”
- Interlingua: “Gex”
- Interlingue: “Gex”
- Irish: “Gex”
- Italian: “Gex”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Gex”
- Japanese: “ジェクス”
- Kabyle: “Gex”
- Kalaallisut: “Gex”
- Kongo: “Gex”
- Korean: “젝스”
- Kurdish: “Gex, Ain”
- Kurdish: “Gex”
- Ladin: “Gex”
- Latin: “Gaium”
- Latin: “Gex”
- Latvian: “Žeksa”
- Ligurian: “Gex”
- Limburgan: “Gex”
- Lithuanian: “Gex”
- Lombard: “Gex”
- Low German: “Gex”
- Luxembourgish: “Gex”
- Mainfränkisch: “Gex”
- Malagasy: “Gérard Paoli”
- Malagasy: “Gex, Ain”
- Malagasy: “Gex”
- Malay: “Gex, Ain”
- Malay: “Gex”
- Maltese: “Gex”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gex”
- Minangkabau: “Gex”
- Narom: “Gex”
- Neapolitan: “Gex”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gex”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gex i Ain”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gex”
- Norwegian: “Gex”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gex”
- Pampanga: “Gex, Ain”
- Pampanga: “Gex”
- Papiamento: “Gex”
- Persian: “ژکس، ان”
- Picard: “Gex”
- Piemontese: “Gex”
- Polish: “Gex”
- Portuguese: “Gex”
- Prussian: “Gex”
- Romagnol: “Gex”
- Romanian: “Gex”
- Romansh: “Gex”
- Russian: “Же”
- Russian: “Жекс”
- Sardinian: “Gex”
- Scots: “Gex”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gex”
- Serbian: “Gex”
- Serbian: “Žeks”
- Serbian: “Жекс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gex”
- Sicilian: “Gex”
- Slovak: “Gex”
- Slovenian: “Gex”
- Spanish: “Gex”
- Swahili: “Gex”
- Swedish: “Gex, Ain”
- Swedish: “Gex”
- Swiss German: “Gex”
- Tagalog: “Gex, Ain”
- Tagalog: “Gex”
- Tatar: “Жекс”
- Tosk Albanian: “Gex”
- Turkish: “Gex”
- Ukrainian: “Жекс”
- Urdu: “ژکس، ان”
- Uzbek: “Gex”
- Venetian: “Gex”
- Vietnamese: “Gex, Ain”
- Vietnamese: “Gex”
- Vlaams: “Gex”
- Volapük: “Gex”
- Walloon: “Gex”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gex, Ain”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gex”
- Welsh: “Gex”
- Wolof: “Gex”
- Wu Chinese: “热克斯”
- Yue Chinese: “Gex”
- Zeeuws: “Gex”
- Zulu: “Gex”
- “Gex”
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