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Chénens
Also known as Chénens FR, Chenens, Chenens FR
Chénens (; local , otherwise spelled as in French) is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. A French-speaking community, its earlier German name of Geiningen is no longer in common use.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Chénens
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Chénens COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Chénens Flag.svg
- Swiss town.image_photo
- 2012-10-11 Distrikto Sarino (Foto Dietrich Michael Weidmann) 288.JPG
- Swiss town.canton
- Fribourg
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-FR
- Swiss town.district
- Sarine
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1744
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 2177
- Swiss town.area
- 3.97
- Swiss town.elevation
- 696
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Chénens (; local , otherwise spelled as in French) is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. A French-speaking community, its earlier German name of Geiningen is no longer in common use.
==History== Chénens is first mentioned in 1138 as Cheineis.
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