Carouge
city and municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland
Facts
24 propertiesDesignation
- Instance of
- municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland[6]
- Heritage designation
- Swiss townscape worthy of protection[20]
Location
- Country
- Switzerland[4]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 46.182°, 6.140°
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Canton of Geneva[3]
- Postal code
- 1227[10]
More facts +18
- Official website
- www.carouge.ch[13]
- Area
- +2.65, +2.7
- Described by source
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19]
- Elevation above sea level
- +386, +389
- Has list
- list of mayors of Carouge
- Head of government
- Patrick Mutzenberg[5]
- Licence plate code
- GE[11]
- List of monuments
- list of cultural properties in Carouge[22]
- Local dialing code
- 022[12]
- Native label
- Carouge[23]
- Office held by head of government
- mayor of Carouge[18]
- Official name
- Carouge (GE)[21]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Govdirectory
- Population
- 23k (20k–23k, n=4)[14][15][16][17]⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 20,375 · 22,336 · 22,459 · 22,783 GeoNames 22,621 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
- Twinned administrative body
- Budapest District I[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Caro
en Carouge
ar كاروج
de Carouge GE
el Καρούζ
fa کروژ
fr Cité sarde
he קרוז'
hu Carouge (GE)
id Carroge
ja カルージュ
ko 카루주
ms Carouge (GE)
ru Каруж
zh 卡鲁日
🔖 Identifiers · 36
- VIAF cluster ID
- 146584152
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n80149013
- GND ID
- 4395194-6
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Carouge Place du Temple1.jpg ↗
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 4333
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 12004204b
- Canadiana Name Authority ID
- ncf12006834
- De Agostini ID
- Carouge
- External data available at URL
- geo.ld.admin.ch
- FAST ID
- 1210788
- FactGrid item ID
- Zahir Howaida
- Freebase ID
- /m/0641lj
Show all 36 identifiers +24
- GADM ID
- CHE.8.1.8_1
- GeoNames ID
- 7285435
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 7007333
- Grove Art Online ID
- T2071279
- HDS ID
- 002890
- IdRef ID
- 028150341
- Joconde location ID
- 9ba7b176-7a17-4fbf-a0d9-d3f1bbc2f16d
- Museum-digital place ID
- 97044
- MusicBrainz area ID
- 3d603688-92d4-4f14-8570-99bb7cf76e1e
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge1076736
- NLAI ID
- 1700095
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007562051905171
- Open Library subject ID
- place:carouge_(switzerland)
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 1685459
- Quora topic ID
- Carouge
- SBN place ID
- TO0L003968
- Swiss Enterprise Identification Number
- CHE-114.845.783
- Swiss municipality code
- 6608
- Topic's main category
- Category:Carouge
- Trismegistos Geo ID
- 20902
- UN/LOCODE
- CHCRG
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJmHKkYQbYkCdCDKy6Kjmd
- Yale LUX ID
- place/4be8b1b8-8669-4727-be1e-0d2c9f7cf4c5
📚 Sources · 1
- GeoNames CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Zurich
2026-09-26
A/ADM3 · CH
GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
as of 2026-09-26
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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🔗 Connections
People born here 15
← Municipal affiliation of a Swiss national 4
Contained subdivisions 2
People who died here 2
← Category combines topics 2
← Headquarters location 2
Category for people born here 1
Category of associated people 1
Country 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Instance of 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Official language 1
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Residents 1
Shares border with 1
Topic's main category 1
Twinned administrative body 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
← Twinned administrative body 1
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