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Encyclopedia > Carouge
Carouge
Canton Geneva
District n.a.
Coordinates  46°11′ N 6°08′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=46_11_N_6_08_E_region:CH_type:city(18,479))
Postal code 1227
Population 18,479   (December 2003)
Area 2.65 km²
Elevation 386 m
Mayor
Website www.carouge.ch
For other uses, see Carouge (disambiguation).

Carouge is a city in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, with a population of 18,479 (2003). 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... 2003: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August _ September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for December, 2003. ... 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. ... Carouge may be: Carouge, the city in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland Carouge (band) See also Carrouge, a municipality in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... 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. ...


The city was founded by Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia, King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy on 31 January 1786. Victor Amadeus III (Vittorio Amedeo III in Italian b. ... The House of Savoy was a dynasty of nobles who traditionally had their domain in Savoy (a small region between Piedmont, Italy, and France). ... January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...


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