Tignes
Tignes is a famous resort in the French Alps linked to Val D'Isere. Tignes is a winter resort for skiing, and a summer one for hiking, mountain biking, and summer skiing on the glacier.- Type: Village with 2,010 residents
- Description: commune in Savoie, France
- Also known as: “Tignes-le-Lac”, “Tignes-sur-Boisses”, and “Tinyè”
- Postal code: 73320
- Neighbors: Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise and Val-d’Isère
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lac de Tignes and Aiguille Percée.
Lac de Tignes
Lake
Lac de Tignes is a lake at Tignes in the Savoie department of France. It is a glacial lake that also contains the famous Tignes Dam, also referred to as the Chevril Dam. The creation of the dam forced the local citizens of Tignes to relocate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plan de Janin.
Tignes
- Categories: commune of France, ski resort, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Albertville, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.4697° or 45° 28′ 11″ north
Longitude
6.9076° or 6° 54′ 27″ east
Population
2,010
Elevation
1,802 metres (5,912 feet)
IATA airport code
TGF
United Nations Location Code
FR TGF
Open location code
8FQ8FW95+V2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Tignes” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tignes”
- Arabic: “تين (قرية فرنسية)”
- Arabic: “تين”
- Aragonese: “Tignes”
- Arpitan: “Tignes”
- Asturian: “Tignes”
- Bambara: “Tignes”
- Basque: “Tignes”
- Bavarian: “Tignes”
- Breton: “Tignes”
- Cajun French: “Tignes”
- Catalan: “Tignes”
- Cebuano: “Tignes”
- Chechen: “Тинь”
- Chinese: “Tignes”
- Chinese: “蒂涅”
- Corsican: “Tignes”
- Croatian: “Tignes”
- Czech: “Tignes”
- Danish: “Tignes”
- Dutch: “Tignes”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تين، فرنسا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تين”
- Esperanto: “Tignes”
- Estonian: “Tignes”
- Faroese: “Tignes”
- Finnish: “Tignes”
- French: “Tignes”
- Friulian: “Tignes”
- Galician: “Tignes”
- German: “Tignes”
- Greek: “Τίνι”
- Hebrew: “טין (אתר סקי)”
- Hebrew: “טין”
- Hungarian: “Tignes”
- Icelandic: “Tignes”
- Ido: “Tignes”
- Indonesian: “Tignes”
- Interlingua: “Tignes”
- Interlingue: “Tignes”
- Irish: “Tignes”
- Italian: “Le Lac de Tignes”
- Italian: “Tignes”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Tignes”
- Japanese: “ティーニュ”
- Japanese: “ティニュ”
- Kabyle: “Tignes”
- Kalaallisut: “Tignes”
- Kongo: “Tignes”
- Korean: “티뉴”
- Ladin: “Tignes”
- Latin: “Tignes”
- Latin: “Tiniae”
- Latvian: “Tignes”
- Latvian: “Tiņa”
- Ligurian: “Tignes”
- Limburgan: “Tignes”
- Lithuanian: “Tignes”
- Lombard: “Tignes”
- Low German: “Tignes”
- Luxembourgish: “Tignes”
- Mainfränkisch: “Tignes”
- Malagasy: “Tignes”
- Malay: “Tignes”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tignes”
- Minangkabau: “Tignes”
- Narom: “Tignes”
- Neapolitan: “Tignes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tignes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tignes”
- Norwegian: “Tignes”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tignes”
- Papiamento: “Tignes”
- Persian: “تیگنس”
- Persian: “تینی”
- Picard: “Tignes”
- Piemontese: “Tignes”
- Polish: “Tignes”
- Portuguese: “Tignes”
- Prussian: “Tignes”
- Romagnol: “Tignes”
- Romanian: “Tignes”
- Romansh: “Tignes”
- Russian: “Тинь”
- Sardinian: “Tignes”
- Scots: “Tignes”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tignes”
- Serbian: “Tignes”
- Sicilian: “Tignes”
- Slovak: “Tignes”
- Spanish: “Tignes”
- Swahili: “Tignes”
- Swedish: “Tignes”
- Swiss German: “Tignes”
- Tatar: “Тинь”
- Turkish: “Tignes”
- Ukrainian: “Тінь”
- Urdu: “تینئے”
- Uzbek: “Tignes”
- Venetian: “Tignes”
- Vietnamese: “Tignes”
- Vlaams: “Tignes”
- Volapük: “Tignes”
- Walloon: “Tignes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tignes”
- Welsh: “Tignes”
- Western Frisian: “Tignes”
- Wolof: “Tignes”
- Zulu: “Tignes”
- “Tignes”
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