Chamonix
Chamonix is a resort in the Haute-Savoie region of France, bordering Italy, at the foot of Mont Blanc. It's regarded as the birthplace of mountaineering and as one of its capitals.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,640 residents
- Description: commune in Haute-Savoie, France
- Also known as: “Chamouni”
- Historically known as: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Postal code: 74400
- Neighbors: Courmayeur
Photo: Rémih, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chamonix-Mont-Blanc station and Chamonix-Aiguille-du-Midi station.
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc station
Railway station
Photo: Remontees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc station is a railway station in the commune of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, in the French department of Haute-Savoie. It is located on the 1,000 mm gauge Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line of SNCF.
Chamonix-Aiguille-du-Midi station
Railway station
Photo: Remontees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chamonix-Aiguille-du-Midi station is a railway station in the commune of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, in the French department of Haute-Savoie. It is located on the 1,000 mm gauge Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line of SNCF.
Temple protestant de Chamonix
Church
Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
Temple protestant de Chamonix is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Les Praz.
Les Praz
Hamlet
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Les-Praz-de-Chamonix is a mountain village in the French Alps, part of the commune of Chamonix. Altitude: 1060 m.
Chamonix
- Categories: commune of France, border city, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude
45.9247° or 45° 55′ 29″ northLongitude
6.8728° or 6° 52′ 22″ eastPopulation
8,640Elevation
1,060 metres (3,478 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR CXMOpen location code
8FQ8WVFF+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 26696275OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Chamonix” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Afrikaans: “Chamonix”
- Arabic: “شامونكس”
- Arabic: “شاموني”
- Arabic: “شامونيكس”
- Aragonese: “Chamonix”
- Armenian: “Շամոնի Մոն Բլան”
- Armenian: “Շամոնի”
- Arpitan: “Chamoni”
- Arpitan: “Chamôni”
- Arpitan: “Chamônix”
- Arpitan: “Shamni”
- Arpitan: “Shamoni”
- Arpitan: “Shamouni”
- Arpitan: “Stamouni”
- Asturian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Azerbaijani: “Şamoni”
- Balinese: “Chamonix”
- Bambara: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Basque: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Basque: “Chamonix”
- Bavarian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Bavarian: “Chamonix”
- Belarusian: “Шамані”
- Bengali: “শামোনি-মোঁ-ব্লঁ”
- Breton: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Bulgarian: “Шамони”
- Cajun French: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Catalan: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Catalan: “Chamonix”
- Cebuano: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Chechen: “Шамони-Мон-Блан”
- Chinese: “Chamonix”
- Chinese: “夏慕尼”
- Chinese: “沙莫尼”
- Chinese: “沙莫尼蒙勃朗”
- Chinese: “霞慕尼”
- Chuvash: “Шамони-Мон-Блан”
- Corsican: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Croatian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Croatian: “Chamonix”
- Czech: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Czech: “Chamonix”
- Danish: “Chamonix”
- Dimli (individual language): “Chamonix”
- Dutch: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Dutch: “Chamonix”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شامونى”
- Esperanto: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Esperanto: “Chamonix”
- Estonian: “Chamonix”
- Faroese: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Finnish: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Finnish: “Chamonix”
- French: “Argentières”
- French: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- French: “Chamonix”
- French: “Chamouny”
- Friulian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Galician: “Chamonix”
- Georgian: “შამონი”
- German: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- German: “Chamonix”
- Greek: “Σαμονί-Μον-Μπλαν”
- Greek: “Σαμονί”
- Hebrew: “שאמוני מון בלאן”
- Hebrew: “שאמוני-מון-בלאן”
- Hebrew: “שאמוני-מון-בלן”
- Hebrew: “שאמוני”
- Hebrew: “שמוני מון בלן”
- Hebrew: “שמוני-מון-בלאן”
- Hebrew: “שמוני-מון-בלן”
- Hebrew: “שמוני”
- Hungarian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Hungarian: “Chamonix”
- Icelandic: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Ido: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Indonesian: “Chamonix”
- Interlingua: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Interlingue: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Interlingue: “Charmonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Irish: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Italian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Italian: “Chamonix”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Japanese: “シャモニー・モンブラン”
- Japanese: “シャモニー”
- Japanese: “シャモニー＝モン＝ブラン”
- Japanese: “シャモニー＝モンブラン”
- Kabyle: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Kalaallisut: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Kongo: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Korean: “샤모니-몽-블렁”
- Korean: “샤모니”
- Korean: “샤모니몽블랑”
- Kurdish: “Chamonix”
- Ladin: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Latin: “Campus Munitus”
- Latin: “Chamonix”
- Latvian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Latvian: “Chamonix”
- Latvian: “Šamoni”
- Latvian: “Šamonī”
- Ligurian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Limburgan: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Lithuanian: “Šamoni”
- Lombard: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Lombard: “Chamonix”
- Low German: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Luxembourgish: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Luxembourgish: “Chamonix”
- Macedonian: “Шамони Мон Блан”
- Macedonian: “Шамони-Мон-Блан”
- Macedonian: “Шамони”
- Mainfränkisch: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Malagasy: “Chamonix”
- Malagasy: “Éric Fournier”
- Malay: “Chamonix”
- Malayalam: “Chamonix”
- Malayalam: “ഷമൊനി”
- Malayalam: “ഷമോനി”
- Marathi: “शामोनि”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chamonix”
- Minangkabau: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Narom: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Neapolitan: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chamonix”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chamonix”
- Norwegian: “Chamonix”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Ossetian: “Шамони-Мон-Блан”
- Papiamento: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Persian: “شامونی”
- Persian: “شامونیکس”
- Picard: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Piemontese: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Polish: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Polish: “Chamonix”
- Portuguese: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Portuguese: “Chamonix”
- Prussian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Quechua: “Chamonix”
- Romagnol: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Romanian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Romanian: “Chamonix”
- Romansh: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Russian: “Шамони-Мон-Блан”
- Russian: “Шамони”
- Sardinian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Scots: “Chamonix”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Serbian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Serbian: “Шамони Мон Блан”
- Serbian: “Шамони”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chamonix”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šamoni”
- Sicilian: “Chamonix”
- Silesian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Slovak: “Chamonix Mont-Blanc”
- Slovak: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Slovak: “Chamonix”
- Slovenian: “Chamonix”
- Spanish: “Chamonix Mont Blanc”
- Spanish: “Chamonix Mont-Blanc”
- Spanish: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Spanish: “Chamonix”
- Swahili: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Swedish: “Campus Munitus”
- Swedish: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Swedish: “Chamonix”
- Swiss German: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Tatar: “Шамони”
- Thai: “ชามอนี”
- Tosk Albanian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Turkish: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Turkish: “Chamonix”
- Ukrainian: “Шамоні-Мон-Блан”
- Ukrainian: “Шамоні-Монблан”
- Ukrainian: “Шамоні”
- Urdu: “شامونی”
- Uzbek: “Chamonix”
- Venetian: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Vietnamese: “Chamonix”
- Vlaams: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Volapük: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Walloon: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chamonix”
- Welsh: “Chamonix”
- Wolof: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- Wu Chinese: “勃朗峰霞慕尼”
- Yue Chinese: “霞慕尼”
- Zulu: “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
- “Chamonix-Mont-Blanc”
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