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Charvonnex (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁvɔne]; Arpitan: Sharvoné) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

Argonay (French pronunciation: [aʁɡɔnɛ] ; Arpitan: Argoné) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is part of the urban area of Annecy.

Pringy (French pronunciation: [pʁɛ̃ʒi] ; Arpitan: Prengi) is a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the commune Annecy.

Cuvat (French pronunciation: [kyva]; Arpitan: Kva) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

Les Ollières (French pronunciation: [le.z‿ɔljɛʁ]; Arpitan: Léz Olîre) is a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Fillière.

Villy-le-Pelloux is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

The Laboratoire d'Annecy de physique des particules (in English the Annecy Particle Physics Laboratory), usually abbreviated as LAPP, is a French experimental physics laboratory located in Annecy in the Haute-Savoie department of France. It is associated with both the French particle and nuclear physics institute IN2P3, a subdivision of the CNRS research council, and the Université Savoie Mont Blanc. The research activity of LAPP is historically linked with CERN, the European particle physics laboratory located near Geneva approximately 50 km from LAPP with past and current experimental involvements including ATLAS, LHCb, OPERA and BaBar experiments. However, the laboratory has diversified beyond accelerator-based experiments into fields such as astroparticle physics (with the AMS attached to the International Space Station, the High Energy Stereoscopic System experiment and the Cherenkov Telescope Array), neutrino physics or gravitational wave detection (with the Virgo Interferometer experiment).

Annecy-le-Vieux (French pronunciation: [ansi lə vjø]) was a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it merged into the commune of Annecy.It was the fourth-largest commune in Haute-Savoie in terms of population, and was located on the northeastern shore of Lake Annecy. It was essentially a residential suburb of Annecy, being less than 3 km from its centre, and was sometimes known at the 16eme arrondissement of Annecy. The last mayor of Annecy-le-Vieux was Bernard Accoyer, who served from 1989 until December 2016. A doctor by profession, he was also the député of the district and was President of the National Assembly of France from 2007 to 2012.

Villaz (French pronunciation: [vilaz]) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

Metz-Tessy (French pronunciation: [mɛtɛsi]) is a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Épagny Metz-Tessy.

Nâves-Parmelan (French pronunciation: [nav paʁməlɑ̃]) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

Annecy (US: AN-ə-SEE, ahn-SEE, French: [ansi] ; Arpitan: Èneci or Ènneci) is the prefecture and largest town of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Geneva, Switzerland. Nicknamed the "Pearl of the French Alps" in Raoul Blanchard's monograph describing its location between lake and mountains, the town controls the northern entrance to the lake gorge. Due to a lack of available building land between the lake and the protected Semnoz mountain, its population has remained stable, around 50,000 inhabitants, since 1950. However, the 2017 merger with several ex-communes extended the population of the city to 128,199 inhabitants and that of the urban area to 177,622, placing Annecy seventh in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Switching from the counts of Geneva's dwelling in the 13th century, to the counts of Savoy's in the 14th century, the city became Savoy's capital in 1434 during the Genevois-Nemours prerogative until 1659. Its role increased in 1536, during the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva, while the bishop took refuge in Annecy. Saint Francis de Sales gave Annecy its advanced Catholic citadel role known as Counter-Reformation. The annexation of Savoy merged the city to France in 1860. Sometimes called "Venice of the Alps", this idyllic and touristic representation comes from the three canals and the Thiou river, which passes through the old city. The city experienced an industrial development in the 19th century with silk manufacturing. Some of its industrial legacy remains today with the headquarters of NTN-SNR bearings, Salomon, Entremont and Dassault Aviation. From the end of the 19th century, Annecy developed tourism around its lake summer facilities, winter resorts proximity and cultural attraction with its castle renovation and fine art museum opening in 1956 and the Animated Film Festival since 1963, hosted in Bonlieu's cultural centre. The municipal environmental policy managed to keep 40.3% of green spaces, and the city was awarded the "Golden Flower" in 2015, given to the nine most-flowered French cities.