Savoie (Department, France)

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Sports flag of the department of Savoie - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 6 February 2023

• Administrative data
• Flag of Savoie
• Municipalities
  • Chambéry
  • Courchevel
  • Beaufort
  • Le Bourget-du-Lac
  • Montmélian
  • La Motte-Servolex
  • Tignes
• Ski and winter sports resorts
  • Les Arcs
  • Courchevel
  • Méribel
  • La Plagne
  • Tignes
• Agence Savoie Mont-Blanc
• Yacht clubs

See also:

• France
• France: Metropolitan departments
• Clickable map of France (departments)

Administrative data

Code: 73
Region: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Rhône-Alpes until 2014)
Traditional province: Savoy (former Intendance of Chambéry; Provinces of Savoie propre, Tarentaise and Maurienne)
Bordering departments: Ain, Hautes-Alpes, Isère, Haute-Savoie
Bordering country: Italy (Regions Aosta Valley and Piedmont)

Area: 6,028 km²
Population (2016): 429,681 inhabitants

Préfecture: Chambéry
Sous-préfectures: Albertville, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 19 cantons, 273 municipalities.

The department is named after the former Duchy of Savoy, incorporated to France in 1860.

Ivan Sache, 14 April 2019

Flag of Savoie

The department of Savoie has no proper flag but the traditional flag of Savoy, red with a white cross.

For the sake of identification and differentiation from the neighboring department of Haute-Savoie, for instance in sports events, a flag of Savoy is sometimes used by the departmental council with the writing "Savoie" added on the horizontal arms of the cross: photo (2022).

Olivier Touzeau, 6 February 2023