Savoie
Savoie is in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in southeastern France. The area is known for its numerous ski resorts and contribution to French cuisine, with culinary specialities such as fondue savoyarde, tartiflette, génépi, as well as various sorts of saucisson.
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Savoie
- Type: department of France with 445,000 residents
- Description: French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of the French Alps
- Also known as: “departamentul Savoie”, “Departement Savoyen”, “FR-73”, “Savoie (departement)”, “Savoy”, “Savoyen”, “Σαβουά”, and “Савоя (дэпартамент)”
- Neighbors: Aosta Valley, Haute-Savoie, Hautes-Alpes, Isère, and Piedmont
- Location: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude of center
45.4681° or 45° 28′ 5″ north
Longitude of center
6.4855° or 6° 29′ 8″ east
Population
445,000
Elevation
1,885 metres (6,184 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Savoie” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Savoie”
- Albanian: “Savoia”
- Arabic: “سافوا”
- Aragonese: “Saboya”
- Aragonese: “Savoya”
- Armenian: “Սավոյ”
- Arpitan: “Savouè-d’Avâl”
- Arpitan: “Savouè”
- Asturian: “Saboya”
- Azerbaijani: “Savoyya”
- Basque: “Savoia”
- Bavarian: “Savoie”
- Belarusian: “Савоя”
- Bengali: “সাভুয়ে”
- Breton: “Savoia”
- Breton: “Savoie”
- Bulgarian: “Савоа”
- Catalan: “Savoia”
- Cebuano: “Savoie”
- Chechen: “Савойя”
- Chechen: “Севваь”
- Chinese: “萨瓦省”
- Chinese: “薩瓦省”
- Chuvash: “Савойя”
- Czech: “Savojsko”
- Danish: “Savoie”
- Dimli (individual language): “Savoie”
- Dutch: “Savoie”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سافوا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساڤوا”
- Esperanto: “Savoie”
- Esperanto: “Savojo”
- Estonian: “Savoia departemang”
- Estonian: “Savoia”
- Finnish: “Savoie”
- French: “Savoie”
- Galician: “Departamento de Savoia”
- Galician: “Savoia”
- Georgian: “სავოია”
- Georgian: “სავოიის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Département Savoie”
- German: “Savoie”
- Greek: “Σαβοΐα”
- Gujarati: “સાવોઈ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Savoie-sén”
- Hebrew: “סבואה”
- Hindi: “सवोई”
- Hungarian: “Savoie”
- Indonesian: “Savoie”
- Interlingua: “Departimento de Savoie”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Savoie”
- Irish: “Savoie”
- Italian: “Savoia”
- Japanese: “サヴォワ”
- Japanese: “サヴォワ県”
- Kannada: “ಸವೊಯಿ”
- Kazakh: “Савойя”
- Kongo: “Savoie”
- Korean: “사부아주”
- Ladin: “Savoie”
- Ladino: “Savoie”
- Latin: “Sabaudia”
- Latvian: “Savoja”
- Limburgan: “Savoie”
- Lithuanian: “Savoja”
- Lombard: “Savoie”
- Low German: “Savoie”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Savoie”
- Macedonian: “Савоја”
- Malagasy: “Savoie”
- Malay: “Savoie”
- Marathi: “साव्वा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Savoie”
- Nepali: “साभोए”
- Northern Frisian: “Savoie”
- Northern Sami: “Savoie”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Savoie”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Departementet Savoie”
- Norwegian: “Savoie”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Savòia”
- Ossetian: “Савойя (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Савойя”
- Pampanga: “Savoie”
- Persian: “ساووی”
- Persian: “سووآ”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd la Savòja”
- Polish: “Sabaudia”
- Portuguese: “Saboia”
- Portuguese: “Sabóia”
- Romanian: “Savoie”
- Russian: “Савойя”
- Sardinian: “Savoja”
- Scots: “Savoie”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Savoie”
- Serbian: “Савоја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Savoie”
- Sinhala: “සැවෝයි”
- Slovak: “Savoie”
- Slovenian: “Savoie”
- Slovenian: “Savoja”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساووآ”
- Spanish: “Saboya”
- Spanish: “Savoya”
- Swahili: “Savoie”
- Swedish: “Savoie”
- Swiss German: “Département Savoie”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Савойя”
- Tamil: “சாவோய்”
- Telugu: “సవోయీ”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซาวัว”
- Turkish: “Savoie”
- Ukrainian: “Савоя”
- Urdu: “ساووا”
- Uzbek: “Savoie”
- Venetian: “Savoja”
- Vietnamese: “Savoie”
- Volapük: “Savoie”
- Waray (Philippines): “Savoie”
- Welsh: “Savoie”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع سیواۓ”
- Wu Chinese: “萨瓦省”
- Yue Chinese: “薩華”
- “Savoie”
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