Western Switzerland
Vaud
Nyon District

Founex

Founex is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of in .
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  • Type: Village with 3,210 residents
  • Description: municipality in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “CH5717” and “Founex VD”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Coppet Castle and Coppet railway station.

Castle
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is a château in the municipality of of the Canton of Vaud in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. It gave its name to the celebrated group of several dozen early 19th-century intellectuals from the whole…

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of , in the canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Castle
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is a castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Divonne-les-Bains and Hermance.

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is a town of 9,600 people in Rhône-Alpes, just outside of . It serves as a bedroom community for Geneva, and as a tourist destination owing to its thermal baths, golf course and casino.

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is a municipality and small town in the region, next to the French border. It is inscribed on the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

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is a small town on the western shore of , . The Romans who founded the settlement in the 1st century BC called it Noviodunum. Today you can visit a few Roman ruins and a Roman museum.

Founex

Latitude
46.3338° or 46° 20′ 2″ north
Longitude
6.1944° or 6° 11′ 40″ east
Population
3,210
Elevation
420 metres (1,378 feet)
Open location code
8FR885MV+GP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240111002
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7285857
Wiki­data ID
Q69331
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Founex” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Founex”
  • Breton: “Founex”
  • Catalan: “Founex”
  • Cebuano: “Founex (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Founex”
  • Chinese: “富内”
  • Czech: “Founex”
  • Dutch: “Founex”
  • Esperanto: “Founex”
  • Finnish: “Founex”
  • French: “Founex”
  • German: “Founex”
  • Hungarian: “Founex”
  • Irish: “Founex”
  • Italian: “Founex”
  • Lombard: “Founex”
  • Luxembourgish: “Founex”
  • Malay: “Founex”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Founex”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Founex”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Founex”
  • Polish: “Founex”
  • Portuguese: “Founex”
  • Romansh: “Founex”
  • Spanish: “Founex”
  • Swedish: “Founex”
  • Swiss German: “Founex”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Founex”
  • Turkish: “Founex”
  • Ukrainian: “Фуне”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Founex”
  • Venetian: “Founex”
  • Volapük: “Founex”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Founex”
  • Welsh: “Founex”

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