Savoie (Department, France)

Last modified: 2021-07-10 by ivan sache
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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