Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Alpes-Maritimes
Arrondissement of Nice

Nice

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  • Type: City with 348,000 residents
  • Description: city and commune in Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
  • Also known as: “Niça”, “Nice, Côte d’Azur”, “Nice, French Riviera”, and “Nissa”
  • Postal codes: 06000, 06100, 06200, and 06300
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Musée Marc Chagall and Opéra de Nice.

Museum
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The Marc Chagall National Museum is a French national dedicated to the work of painter Marc Chagall – particularly his works inspired by religion – located in Nice in the .

Theater building
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The is the principal opera venue in Nice, France, which houses the Ballet Nice Méditerrannée and the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra. It offers three types of performances: operas, ballets and classical music concerts.

Museum
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The in Nice, at 33 av. des Baumettes was built in the former private mansion built in 1878 by the Russian Princess, Elizaveta Vasilievna Kochubey.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Villefranche-sur-Mer and Cimiez.

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is a small beach resort and residential town on the . The deep water harbour is home to Mediterranean cruise boats, whose tenders routinely disgorge several thousand passengers on organised trips to nearby Eze Village and Monaco.

Suburb
is an upper-class neighborhood in Nice, Southern France. The area contains the and the ruins of Cemenelum, capital of the Ancient Roman province Alpes Maritimae on the coast.

Village
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is a commune in the department in southeastern . Until the 50s, in this small city there was a mountain with the shape of a shape-pyramid, similar to ancient pyramids from old civilizations.

Nice

Latitude
43.70094° or 43° 42′ 3″ north
Longitude
7.26839° or 7° 16′ 6″ east
Population
348,000
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
IATA airport code
NCE
United Nations Location Code
FR NCE
Open location code
8FM9P729+99
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1701090139
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2990440
Wiki­data ID
Q33959
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Nice” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nice”
  • Afrikaans: “Nizza”
  • Albanian: “Nica”
  • Albanian: “Niça”
  • Albanian: “Nice”
  • Albanian: “Nisa”
  • Albanian: “Nissa”
  • Albanian: “Niza”
  • Albanian: “Nizza”
  • Amharic: “ኒስ”
  • Arabic: “نيس”
  • Aragonese: “Niza”
  • Armenian: “Նիս”
  • Arpitan: “Nice”
  • Arpitan: “Nise”
  • Asturian: “Nice”
  • Asturian: “Niza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nitsa”
  • Balinese: “Nice”
  • Bambara: “Nice”
  • Bashkir: “Ницца”
  • Basque: “Niça”
  • Basque: “Nice”
  • Basque: “Niza”
  • Bavarian: “Nizza”
  • Belarusian: “Ніца”
  • Belarusian: “Ніцца”
  • Bengali: “নিস”
  • Betawi: “Nis”
  • Bosnian: “Nica”
  • Breton: “Niça”
  • Breton: “Nice”
  • Breton: “Nisa”
  • Buginese: “Nice”
  • Bulgarian: “Ница”
  • Burmese: “နိစ်မြို့”
  • Burmese: “နိမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Niça”
  • Cebuano: “Nice”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیس”
  • Chechen: “Ницца”
  • Chinese: “Nice”
  • Chinese: “尼斯”
  • Chinese: “尼斯市”
  • Chuvash: “Ницца”
  • Corsican: “Nizza”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nitstsa”
  • Croatian: “Nica”
  • Croatian: “Nice”
  • Czech: “Nice”
  • Czech: “Nizza”
  • Danish: “Kvarterer i Nice”
  • Danish: “Nice”
  • Danish: “Nizza”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nice”
  • Dutch: “Nice”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيس”
  • Esperanto: “Nice”
  • Esperanto: “Nico”
  • Esperanto: “Nissa”
  • Esperanto: “Nizza”
  • Estonian: “Nice”
  • Estonian: “Nizza”
  • Extremaduran: “Niça”
  • Fijian: “Nice”
  • Finnish: “Nice”
  • Finnish: “Nizza”
  • French: “Niça”
  • French: “Nicaea”
  • French: “Nice”
  • French: “Nikaia”
  • French: “Nissa”
  • French: “Nizza”
  • Galician: “Nice”
  • Galician: “Niza”
  • Georgian: “ნიცა”
  • German: “Niça”
  • German: “Nice”
  • German: “Nizza”
  • Greek: “Νίκαια”
  • Greek: “Νις”
  • Gujarati: “નાઈસ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nice”
  • Hausa: “Nice”
  • Hebrew: “ניס”
  • Hebrew: “ניצה”
  • Hindi: “नीस”
  • Hungarian: “Nizza”
  • Icelandic: “Nice”
  • Ido: “Nice”
  • Indonesian: “Nice”
  • Interlingua: “Nice”
  • Interlingue: “Nice”
  • Irish: “Nice”
  • Italian: “Nice”
  • Italian: “Nizza Marittima”
  • Italian: “Nizza”
  • Japanese: “ニース”
  • Javanese: “Nice”
  • Kabyle: “Nice”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nice”
  • Kannada: “ನೀಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ನೈಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ницца”
  • Kinaray-A: “Nisa”
  • Kirghiz: “Ницца”
  • Komi: “Ницца”
  • Kongo: “Nice”
  • Korean: “니스”
  • Kurdish: “Nice”
  • Ladin: “Nice”
  • Ladin: “Nizza”
  • Ladino: “Nice”
  • Ladino: “Nisa”
  • Latin: “Nicaea ad Varum”
  • Latin: “Nicaea”
  • Latvian: “Nica”
  • Ligurian: “Nissa”
  • Ligurian: “Nìssa”
  • Limburgan: “Nice”
  • Lingala: “Nice”
  • Lithuanian: “Nica”
  • Lithuanian: “Nice”
  • Lombard: “Nisa”
  • Lombard: “Nìsa”
  • Lombard: “Nissa”
  • Lombard: “Nizza”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nice”
  • Macedonian: “Ница”
  • Malagasy: “Nice”
  • Malay: “Nice”
  • Maltese: “Nizza”
  • Maori: “Naihi”
  • Maori: “Nīhi”
  • Marathi: “नीस”
  • Mazanderani: “نیس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nice”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიცა”
  • Mongolian: “Ницца”
  • Narom: “Nice”
  • Neapolitan: “Nizza”
  • Northern Sami: “Nice”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nice”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nizza”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Niça”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nice”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nissa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nizza”
  • Norwegian: “Nice”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Niça”
  • Ossetian: “Ниццæ”
  • Ossetian: “Ницца”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੀਸ”
  • Persian: “نیس”
  • Piemontese: “Nice”
  • Piemontese: “Nissa Marìtima”
  • Polish: “Nicea”
  • Pontic: “Νίκαια”
  • Pontic: “Νις”
  • Portuguese: “Niça”
  • Portuguese: “Nice, Riviera Francesa”
  • Portuguese: “Nice”
  • Portuguese: “Nissa”
  • Portuguese: “Nizza”
  • Quechua: “Nice”
  • Romanian: “Nice”
  • Romanian: “Nisa”
  • Romanian: “Nizza”
  • Russian: “Ницца”
  • Sardinian: “Nitza”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Nice”
  • Scots: “Nice”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nice”
  • Serbian: “Nice”
  • Serbian: “Ница”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nice”
  • Sicilian: “Nizza”
  • Silesian: “Nice”
  • Sinhala: “නයිස්”
  • Slovak: “Nice”
  • Slovenian: “Nica”
  • Slovenian: “Nice”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیس”
  • Spanish: “Niça”
  • Spanish: “Niza”
  • Spanish: “Nizza”
  • Swahili: “Nice”
  • Swedish: “Nice”
  • Swedish: “Nizza”
  • Swiss German: “Nizza”
  • Tagalog: “Nice”
  • Tagalog: “Niza”
  • Tajik: “Нис”
  • Talysh: “Nitsa”
  • Tamil: “நீஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Ницца”
  • Telugu: “నీస్”
  • Thai: “นิส”
  • Thai: “นีซ”
  • Thai: “เมืองนีซ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nizza”
  • Turkish: “Nice”
  • Turkish: “Nis”
  • Twi: “Nice”
  • Uighur: “Nis”
  • Uighur: “نىس”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніца”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніцца”
  • Urdu: “نیس”
  • Uzbek: “Nice”
  • Uzbek: “Nitssa”
  • Venetian: “Niza”
  • Venetian: “Nizsa”
  • Venetian: “Nizza”
  • Veps: “Nicc”
  • Vietnamese: “Nice”
  • Volapük: “Nice”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nice”
  • Welsh: “Nice”
  • Western Armenian: “Նիս”
  • Western Frisian: “Nice”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیس”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼斯”
  • Yiddish: “ניס”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Nice”
  • “Nice”
  • “Nisa”

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