Martigny is a municipality and the capital town of the district of Martigny in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It lies at an elevation of 471 metres on the left foothills of the Rhone Valley, at the point where the Rhone turns ninety degrees northward toward Lake Geneva. It is a junction of roads joining Italy, France and Switzerland, one over the Great St. Bernard Pass to Aosta and the other over the col de la Forclaz to Chamonix, and it lies near ski resorts such as Verbier. The Gauls called the settlement Octodurus, and the Romans fought the Battle of Octodurus there in 57 BC. The present municipality was created in 1964 by merging Martigny-Ville and Martigny-Bourg, and Charrat joined it on 1 January 2021.
Facts
Area (sq km) Elevation (m) Elevation Band Sources
1. citypopulation.de: Switzerland: Cantons and Cities
citypopulation.deCities table, population estimate of 2020-12-31
Martigny VS 12,247 14,480 15,442 17,558 20,276 22,509
On Continent: Europe, Page header, Europe, Switzerland
Europe → Switzerland
View the Source 2. Martigny (Wikipedia)
Geography
Martigny has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey), of 32.6 km2
Part Of: Switzerland, Lead
capital town of the district of Martigny, canton of Valais, Switzerland
View the Source3. Opentopodata (SRTM): SRTM 90 m elevation at 46.1,7.0667
Opentopodata (SRTM)Elevation of the place coordinates 46.1,7.0667, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, under 500 m lowland, under 1500 m highland, otherwise mountain)Quote, Elevation of the place coordinates 46.1,7.0667, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, under 500 m lowland, under 1500 m highland, otherwise mountain)
"elevation": 482.0
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