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Saint Genis-Pouilly
Eglise Pouilly 01
The church in Pouilly
Coat of arms of Saint Genis-Pouilly
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Saint Genis-Pouilly is located in France
Saint Genis-Pouilly
Saint Genis-Pouilly
Location in France
Saint Genis-Pouilly is located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Saint Genis-Pouilly
Saint Genis-Pouilly
Location in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country France
Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Ain
Arrondissement Gex
Canton Saint-Genis-Pouilly
Intercommunality Pays de Gex
Area
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9.77 km2 (3.77 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2021)
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Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
01354 /01630
Dialling codes 0450
Elevation 419–502 m (1,375–1,647 ft)
(avg. 450 m or 1,480 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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Communes bordering Saint-Genis-Pouilly

Saint-Genis-Pouilly is a commune in the Ain department within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France.

It is located in the Pays de Gex, at the foot of the Jura Mountains. Bordering the Swiss frontier, it is part of the cross-border area of Geneva. With a population of over 12,000 inhabitants, it is one of the ten most populous towns in the department of Ain.

A large portion of CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, is located within the territory of Saint-Genis-Pouilly; the ALICE experiment is located on the periphery of the town, and the main entrance to the primary CERN campus (Meyrin) and the ATLAS experiment are located only 3 km from the centre of St Genis. CERN is the world's largest fundamental physics research laboratory and its presence has largely been responsible for the development of the community of Saint Genis since the middle of the 1960s.

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