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Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières

Coordinates: 46°00′02″N 6°23′46″E / 46.0006°N 6.3961°E / 46.0006; 6.3961
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Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières
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Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières is located in France
Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières
Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières
Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières is located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières
Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières
Coordinates: 46°00′02″N 6°23′46″E / 46.0006°N 6.3961°E / 46.0006; 6.3961
CountryFrance
RegionAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
DepartmentHaute-Savoie
ArrondissementBonneville
CantonBonneville
CommuneGlières-Val-de-Borne
Area
1
53.42 km2 (20.63 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[1]
1,126
 • Density21/km2 (55/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
74130
Elevation591–2,408 m (1,939–7,900 ft)
(avg. 732 m or 2,402 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, commonly referred to as Petit-Bornand, is a former commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged with its neighbour village Entrement to form the new commune of Glières-Val-de-Borne.[2]

Petit Bornand has a number of dairy farms, tourist accommodations and secondary residences. It is in the area which is authorised to produce the named soft cheese "roblochon"[1]

People

Guillaume Fichet (1433-c. 1480) was born in this village. With Johann Heynlin, Fichet set up the first printing press in France in 1470.

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