Saint-Genis-Pouilly

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Saint Genis-Pouilly
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Saint Genis-Pouilly
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Coordinates: 46°14′37″N 6°01′30″E / 46.2437°N 6.0250°E / 46.2437; 6.0250
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Gex
Canton	Saint-Genis-Pouilly
Intercommunality	CA Pays de Gex
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Hubert Bertrand[1]
Area 1	9.77 km2 (3.77 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	14,558
• Density	1,500/km2 (3,900/sq mi)
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.

Saint-Genis-Pouilly (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒəni puji]; Arpitan: Sant-Genés-Polyi) 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 almost 14,000 inhabitants (2019), it is the fifth most populous commune in the department of Ain.^[3]

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 French 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.