Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Department
- Savoie
- Arrondissement
- Albertville
- Canton
- Moûtiers
- Commune
- Grand-Aigueblanche
- Area
- 5.55 km (2.14 sq mi)
- Density
- 72.4/km (188/sq mi)
- Demonym s
- Velborains, Velboraines
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Elevation
- 458–1,760 m (1,503–5,774 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Le Bois
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Grand-Aigueblanche
- Population
- 394
- Area
- 5.55
- Elevation
- 1001
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Salins-les-Thermes
- Image
- Le Bois (2018)-2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Le Bois
- postal code
- 73260
- replaced by
- Grand-Aigueblanche
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2018-12-31
- associated electoral district
- canton of Moûtiers
Sources (4)
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Encyclopedic overview
Le Bois ( French pronunciation: [lə bwa]; Savoyard: Vel Boué) is a former commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Grand-Aigueblanche. The traditionalist Catholic order, the Fraternity of the Transfiguration, is located in Le Bois.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Le Bois” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.