Coordinates: 46°21′24″N 6°08′34″E / 46.3566666667, 6.14277777778

Commune of Divonne-les-Bains Foothills of the Jura above Divonne
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Gex
Canton	Gex
Intercommunality	Pays de Gex
Mayor	Étienne Blanc (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	464 m–1 447 m (avg. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Rhône-Alpes ( Franco-Provençal: Rôno-Arpes; Occitan: Ròse Aups) is one of the 26 regions of France, located on the In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Ain (ɛ̃ Arpitan: En) is a department named after the Ain River on the eastern edge of France. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Gex is an arrondissement of France located in the Ain department, in the Rhône-Alpes region. The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The canton of Gex is an administrative division in eastern France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 509 m)
Land area¹	33. 88 km²
Population² (1999)	6171
- Density	185/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	01143/ 01220
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E

Divonne-les-Bains, is a commune in the department of Ain in eastern France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Ain (ɛ̃ Arpitan: En) is a department named after the Ain River on the eastern edge of France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. It is a popular spa town. See also Mineral spa A spa town, or simply spa, is a town frequented mainly for health reasons to "take the waters"

Divonne lies on the border with French-speaking Switzerland, between the foot of the Jura mountains and Lake Geneva. The Jura Mountains are a small Mountain range located north of the Alps, separating the Rhine and Rhone rivers and forming part of Lake Geneva or Lake Léman (Lac Léman Léman Lac de Genève is the second largest freshwater Lake in Central Europe in terms of surface area (after Geneva itself is 20 minutes away on the Swiss autoroute to the south-west. Nyon, a Swiss market town, is the nearest main town travelling east along Lake Geneva towards Lausanne. Nyon is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Lausanne ( pronounced, Losanna is a city in Romandy, the French -speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva On the French side the nearest town is Gex, which lies at the foot of the Col de la Faucille pass by which the main N5 road crosses the Jura in the direction of Dijon. GEX is a German Stock market index. It contains owner-dominated companies which have been listed on the German stock exchange for no more than ten years Col de la Faucille is a high mountain pass in the department of Ain in the French Jura. Dijon ( diʒɔ̃ is a city in eastern France, the capital of the Côte-d'Or departement and of the Bourgogne region

Divonne-les-Bains, the hotels - approximately 1920

Divonne became popular as a spa in the 19th century. However many of its present-day amenities - casino, golf course, hippodrome, open air swimming pool and artificial lake (Lac de Divonne) - were built after 1945. Lac de Divonne is an Artificial lake at Divonne-les-Bains, France A cultural centre by the lake was completed in 2005. Divonne hosts a small chamber music festival every summer which is centred on its tiny theatre and the Chateau de Divonne, a 19th-century hotel which overlooks the town, Lake Geneva and the French Alps beyond, from the high terrace which was the site of Divonne's medieval castle.

A short way above the town there are several natural springs. These were already known to the Romans, who built an aqueduct from Divonne to Nyon to supply water to their garrison.

The town is home to some 7,030^[1] people, which now includes people from all over the world, for whom Divonne is a pleasant place to live for a few years while they are posted in the Geneva area with multinational companies or international organizations such as the United Nations.

The Sunday market in Divonne

There is a lively market on Sundays and a succession of cultural and sporting events throughout the year.

Divonne used to have a railway, linking it to Gex and Bellegarde on the French side and to Nyon and Geneva on the Swiss side. The old railway station can still be seen in the town centre. However though trains no longer run in and out of this station, the SNCF administrative offices can still be used to purchase tickets from any SNCF departure point. SNCF ( Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français) (French National Railway Company is a French public enterprise Diamonds were mined in Divonne in the past, and the present-day thermal spa is built on the site of a diamond-cutting works, powered by a water wheel on the Divonne river which still turns today.