Haute-Savoie (Department, France)

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• Administrative data
• Flag of Haute-Savoie
• Municipalities

  Annemasse Bonneville La Clusaz Cluses Étrembières Évian-les-Bains Gaillard Le Grand-Bornand Megève

  Morzine Nernier Saint-Gervais-les-Bains Saint-Jean-de-Sixt Thônes Thonon-les-Bains Veigy-Foncenex Ville-la-Grand Yvoire

• Agence Savoie Mont-Blanc
• Yacht clubs
• Lake of Annecy: Navigation signals

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• France
• France: Metropolitan departments
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Administrative data

Code: 74
Region: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Rhône-Alpes until 2014)
Traditional province: Savoy (former Intendance of Annecy; Provinces of Chablais, Faucigny and Genevois)
Bordering departments: Ain, Savoie
Bordering countries: Italy (Region Aosta Valley), Switzerland (Cantons of Geneva and Valais)

Area: 4,388 km²
Population (2016): 801,416 inhabitants

Préfecture: Annecy
Sous-préfectures: Bonneville, Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, Thonon-les-Bains
Subdivisions: 4 arrondissements, 17 cantons, 281 municipalities.

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

Ivan Sache, 14 January 2018

Flag of Haute-Savoie

Flag of Haute-Savoie - Image by Ivan Sache, 24 March 2020

The department of Haute-Savoie has no proper flag but the traditional flag of Savoy, red with a white cross.
For the sake of differentiation from the neighboring department of Savoie, for instance in sports events, a flag of Savoy is sometimes used with the writing "Haute-Savoie" added on the cross' horizontal arms (photo).

Ivan Sache, 24 March 2020