Meyrin
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- Type: Town with 21,900 residents
- Description: municipality in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Meyrin GE” and “Meyrin-Unie”
- Postal code: 1217
Places of Interest
Highlights include Église Saint-Julien and Hôpital de la Tour.
Maison Mani
Government building
Photo: Tulpoeid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maison Mani is a government building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vernier and Satigny.
Vernier
Town
Photo: Port(u*o)s, CC BY 3.0.
Vernier is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva, in Switzerland. It is located in the western suburbs of Geneva.
Satigny
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Satigny is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It is the largest municipality of the canton by land area and the largest wine-producing municipality of the country. Satigny is situated 3 km southwest of Meyrin.
Le Lignon
Neighborhood
Photo: Port(u*o)s, CC BY 3.0.
Le Lignon is an urban development in the town of Vernier, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was designed by architect Georges Addor between 1964 and 1966 and consists of three large buildings and is one of the largest apartment complexes in the world, containing 2,780 units. Le Lignon is situated 3½ km southeast of Meyrin.
Meyrin
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, border city, commune of France, and locality
- Location: Meyrin, Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.22832° or 46° 13′ 42″ northLongitude
6.0712° or 6° 4′ 16″ eastPopulation
21,900Elevation
445 metres (1,460 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH MEYOpen location code
8FR863HC+8FOpenStreetMap ID
node 36650971OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Meyrin” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Meyrin”
- Arabic: “ميرين”
- Aragonese: “Meyrin”
- Armenian: “Մեյրին”
- Armenian: “Մերեն”
- Arpitan: “Mêrin”
- Arpitan: “Mêrins”
- Asturian: “Meyrin”
- Basque: “Meyrin”
- Bavarian: “Meyrin”
- Belarusian: “Мерэн (Швейцарыя)”
- Belarusian: “Мерэн”
- Breton: “Meyrin”
- Catalan: “Meyrin”
- Cebuano: “Meyrin (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Meyrin”
- Chinese: “Meyrin”
- Chinese: “梅兰”
- Chinese: “梅蘭”
- Corsican: “Meyrin”
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- Czech: “Meyrin”
- Danish: “Meyrin”
- Dutch: “Meyrin”
- Esperanto: “Meyrin”
- Estonian: “Meyrin”
- Finnish: “Meyrin”
- French: “Meyrin-Unie”
- French: “Meyrin”
- Friulian: “Meyrin”
- Galician: “Meyrin”
- German: “Mategnin”
- German: “Meyrin”
- Hebrew: “מרן (עיר)”
- Hebrew: “מרן”
- Hungarian: “Meyrin”
- Icelandic: “Meyrin”
- Ido: “Meyrin”
- Indonesian: “Merin”
- Indonesian: “Mêrin”
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- Italian: “Meyrin”
- Japanese: “メイラン”
- Kongo: “Meyrin”
- Korean: “메렝”
- Kurdish: “Meyrin”
- Latin: “Meyrin”
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- Limburgan: “Meyrin”
- Lithuanian: “Meirinas”
- Lombard: “Meyrin”
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- Norwegian Bokmål: “Meyrin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Meyrin”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Meyrin”
- Persian: “میرن”
- Picard: “Meyrin”
- Piemontese: “Meyrin”
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- Portuguese: “Meyrin”
- Romanian: “Meyrin”
- Romansh: “Meyrin”
- Russian: “Мейрин”
- Russian: “Мерен”
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- Slovenian: “Meyrin”
- South Azerbaijani: “میرن”
- Spanish: “Meyrin”
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- Swedish: “Meyrin”
- Swiss German: “Meyrin”
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- Turkish: “Meyrin”
- Ukrainian: “Мерен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Meyrin”
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