Versoix
Sign in to saveVersoix (; local Arpitan dialect: Varchoè) is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva, in Switzerland. It is located in the northern suburbs of Geneva.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Versoix
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- town
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Versoix Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Versoix COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Geneva
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-GE
- Swiss town.district
- n.a.
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1290
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6644
- Swiss town.area
- 10.51
- Swiss town.elevation
- 385
- Swiss town.website
- www.versoix.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Jolanka Tchamkerten
- Swiss town.mayor_party
- Les Verts
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Maire
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Mies, Chavannes-des-Bois, Grilly, Sauverny, Versonnex, Collex-Bossy, Genthod
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Versoix (; local Arpitan dialect: Varchoè) is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva, in Switzerland. It is located in the northern suburbs of Geneva.
==Toponymy== The name of the commune is of uncertain origin. It could be composed of the Proto-Indo-European base *uer- ("water, river"), the infix -s-, and suffix -ogia. It is first attested from 1026 to 1031, in the Medieval Latin form Uersoi. Its name in Genevan patois is Varchoè. The commune is nicknamed "the Crow's Nest".