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Encyclopedia > Bardonnex
Bardonnex
Canton Geneva
District n.a.
Coordinates  46°08′ N 06°06′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=46_08_N_06_06_E_region:CH_type:city(2141))
Postal code 1285
Population 2141   (2004)
Area 5.04 km²
Elevation 476 m
Mayor
Website www.bardonnex.ch


Bardonnex is a commune in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... The Republic and Canton of Geneva is the name of the westernmost canton or state of Switzerland, surrounded on almost all sides by France and centered around the city of Geneva. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... Here are postal codes of Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Zone 1 1000s are found in Lausanne, Lavaux and parts of Morges, 1100s in parts of Morges, 1200s are in Geneva and parts of La Côte, Vaud, 1300s in La Vallée, 1500s are found in Clavaleyres, the 1700s are found... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... For other uses of the word, see Elevation In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... The metre (American spelling: meter), symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of length, in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... The Republic and Canton of Geneva is the name of the westernmost canton or state of Switzerland, surrounded on almost all sides by France and centered around the city of Geneva. ...


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Genève : Les châteaux de Bardonnex (543 words)
Au nord du village de Bardonnex, dans la campagne on peut apercevoir le château.
En juin 1980, deux cents villageois de Bardonnex avaient contresigné une pétition demandant le «classement» de cette maison forte de Bardonnex, ainsi que de son environnement.
D'entente avec la commune de Bardonnex, le Département des travaux publics a étudié un plan directeur d'aménagement qui, «sans priver de leurs droits à bâtir les propriétaires des parcelles avoisinantes, donne satisfaction aux habitants du village », désireux de protéger au maximum le périmètre.
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