Servoz
Servoz | |
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The church in Servoz | |
Location of Servoz | |
| Coordinates: 45°55′57″N 6°45′46″E / 45.9325°N 6.7628°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Haute-Savoie |
| Arrondissement | Bonneville |
| Canton | Le Mont-Blanc |
| Intercommunality | Vallée de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Nicolas Évrard |
Area 1 | 13.47 km2 (5.20 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | 1,125 |
| • Density | 84/km2 (220/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 74266 /74310 |
| Elevation | 758–2,324 m (2,487–7,625 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
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Servoz (Franco-Provençal pronunciation: [ˈsɛr.vo]), but pronounced by inhabitants, and people of the region, by sounding the terminal “z”, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
Servoz has a railway station on the Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway and the section between Les Houches and Servoz holds the world record gradient for an adhesion railway at a 9% gradient over a distance of 2,000 m (6,562 ft).