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La Roche-sur-Foron

commune in Haute-Savoie, France
Place commune_of_france Q164339

Facts

23 properties
Instance of
commune of France
Country
France[4]
Official website
www.larochesurforon.fr[17]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.067°, 6.312°
Capital of
canton of la Roche-sur-Foron, Wikidata item[30]
Archives at
archives municipales de La Roche Sur Foron[16]
Area
+17.94[38]
Associated electoral district
canton of la Roche-sur-Foron[39]
Different from
Château de La Roche-sur-Foron[34]
Elevation above sea level
828 (500–1.9k, n=3)[35][36][37]
Female population
+5725[32]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Haute-Savoie, arrondissement of Bonneville[2][3]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Unité urbaine de Cluses[40]
Male population
+5614[33]
Member of
Les Plus Beaux Détours de France[1]
Named after
Foron[12]
Office held by head of government
Mayor of La Roche-sur-Foron[28]
Official name
La Roche-sur-Foron, Roche[31]
Phone number
+33-4-50-25-90-00[29]
Population
11k (11k–12k, n=10)[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 11,184 · 11,659 · 12,187 · 11,339 · 11,175 GeoNames 10,026 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code
74800[15]
Shares border with
Amancy, Cornier, Etaux, Évires, Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, Saint-Laurent, Saint-Sixt, Thorens-Glières, Glières-Val-de-Borne, Fillière[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Twinned administrative body
Candelo, Stockach[13][14]
🏷️ Also known as
en La Roche-sur-Foron en Roche el Λα Ρος el Λα Ρος-συρ-Φορόν es Roche fr 74224 fr Roche he לה רוש-סור-פורון ru Ла-Рош-сюр-Форон zh 福龙河畔拉罗什 zh-hant 福龍河畔拉羅什
🔖 Identifiers · 23
VIAF cluster ID
133728351
Library of Congress authority ID
n83067802
GND ID
4363382-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
La Roche-sur-Foron-01 (2019).jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
152744806
EHESS ID of a French commune
29320
Email address
mailto:mairie@larochesurforon.fr
FactGrid item ID
Severian Baranyk
Freebase ID
/m/03nt_29
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1438621
GeoNames ID
3006770
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 3006770 BnF data 6456427 edition 2026-10-01 · fr-lo ↗
Insee municipality code
74224
Show all 23 identifiers +11
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.FRA.1.7.2.4.6_1
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
12180
Museum-digital place ID
106856
MusicBrainz area ID
a95bab6d-479b-4603-88c1-bb28efa68017
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007555109905171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
75202
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrt3wHdOSqwTJ
Topic's main category
Category:La Roche-sur-Foron
VerbaAlpina ID
A55358
Who's on First ID
101827615
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJmTpJYHBxXYR46qGGQjG3

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Source
GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261015 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
Credit
DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
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🔗 Connections
← Shares border with 9
Amancy, Cornier, Saint-Laurent, Saint-Sixt, Évires, Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, Thorens-Glières, Fillière +1 more
Shares border with 6
Amancy, Cornier, Saint-Laurent, Saint-Sixt, Fillière, Glières-Val-de-Borne
People born here 3
Luigi Pelloux, Benoît Chamoux, Adhémar Fabri
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Haute-Savoie, arrondissement of Bonneville
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Twinned administrative body 2
Candelo, Stockach
← Twinned administrative body 2
Candelo, Stockach
Associated electoral district 1
canton of la Roche-sur-Foron
Capital of 1
canton of la Roche-sur-Foron
Contained subdivisions 1
La Roche-sur-Foron railway station
Country 1
France
FactGrid item ID 1
Severian Baranyk
Instance of 1
commune of France
People who died here 1
Isabella Charlet-Straton
Topic's main category 1
Category:La Roche-sur-Foron
← Capital 1
canton of la Roche-sur-Foron
← Category's main topic 1
Category:La Roche-sur-Foron
← Destination point 1
2020 Tour de France, stage 18
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Related Entities

Amancy Candelo France Luigi Pelloux

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  1. 2d ago · MystBot bot · 2026-11-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ Population: 11,348, Add reason for preferred rank to population for 2023 ([[:toolforge:editgroups/b/CB/257f4f3a5bea|details]])"
  2. 13w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    VerbaAlpina ID → A55358
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  3. 26w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → France
    Archives at → archives municipales de La Roche Sur Foron
    Coordinates → —
    Instance of → commune of France
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30066|batch #30066]]"
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