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Chambéry was founded at a crossroads of ancient routes through the Dauphiné Dôfenâ, Burgundy, Switzerland, and Italy, in a wide valley between the Bauges and the Chartreuse Mountains on the Leysse River. The metropolitan area has more than 125,000 residents, extending from the vineyard slopes of the Combe de Savoie almost to the shores of the Lac du Bourget, the largest natural lake in France. The city is a major railway hub, at the midpoint of the Franco-Italian Turin–Lyon high-speed railway. Chambéry is situated in southeast France, 523 kilometres 325 miles from Paris, 326 kilometres 203 miles from Marseille, 214 km 133 mi from Turin, 100 kilometres 62 miles from Lyon and 85 kilometres 53 miles from Geneva. It is found in a large valley, surrounded by the Massif des Bauges to the east dominated by Le Nivolet, upon which La Croix du Nivolet is found, Mont Granier Chartreuse and the Chaîne de Belledonne to the south, the Chaîne de l`Épine the most southern mountain of the Jura to the west and the Lac du Bourget to the north. The towns surrounding Chambéry are Barberaz, Bassens, Cognin, Jacob-Bellecombette, La Motte-Servolex, La Ravoire, Saint-Alban-Leysse and Sonnaz.