Lausanne

Lausanne is a locality in , and has about 139,000 residents. Lausanne is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Olympic Museum and Stade Olympique de la Pontaise.

Museum
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The in , Switzerland houses permanent and temporary exhibits relating to sport and the Olympic movement. With more than 10,000 artifacts, the museum is the largest archive of Olympic Games memorabilia in the world and one of Lausanne's prime tourist site draws attracting more than 250,000 visitors each year.

Stadium
Photo: Sa-se, CC BY 3.0.
also known as the Pinnacle of football is a multi-purpose stadium in , Switzerland. The stadium holds 15,700 people and was opened in 1954.

Library
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
CIRA or International Center for Research on Anarchism is an anarchist archive, infoshop and library of anarchist material in different languages based in , Switzerland with other branches in and Fujinomiya, Japan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Renens and Pully.

Town
Photo: Vkeller, Public domain.
is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, . It is located in the district of , and is a suburb of the city of . is situated 3½ km northwest of Lausanne.

Town
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is a municipality in in the , located in the district of . It is one of the eastern suburbs of the city of , located on the shores of and at the foot of the vineyards of on the road to and .

Town
Photo: Sa-se, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in in the canton of , located in the district of . It is one of the western suburbs of the city of .

Lausanne

Latitude
46.516° or 46° 30′ 58″ north
Longitude
6.6328° or 6° 37′ 58″ east
Population
139,000
Elevation
453 metres (1,486 feet)
IATA airport code
QLS
United Nations Location Code
CH LAU
Open location code
8FR8GJ8M+94
Geo­Names ID
2659994
Wiki­data ID
Q22374786
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Lausanne” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lausanne”
  • Amharic: “ሎዛን”
  • Arabic: “لوزان”
  • Arpitan: “Losena”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lozanna”
  • Bengali: “লজান”
  • Bosnian: “Lausanne”
  • Bulgarian: “Лозана”
  • Catalan: “Lausana”
  • Cebuano: “Lausanne (kapital sa kanton)”
  • Cebuano: “Lausanne”
  • Chinese: “洛桑”
  • Croatian: “Lausanne”
  • Czech: “Lausanne”
  • Danish: “Lausanne”
  • Dutch: “Lausanne”
  • Esperanto: “Laŭzano”
  • Estonian: “Lausanne”
  • Finnish: “Lausanne”
  • French: “Lausanne”
  • German: “Lausanne”
  • Greek: “Λωζάνη”
  • Hausa: “Lausanne”
  • Hebrew: “לוזאן”
  • Hindi: “लॉसेन”
  • Hungarian: “Lausanne”
  • Indonesian: “Lausanne”
  • Irish: “Lausanne”
  • Italian: “Losanna”
  • Japanese: “ローザンヌ”
  • Javanese: “Lausanne”
  • Kazakh: “Лозанна”
  • Kirghiz: “Лозанна”
  • Latin: “Lausonium”
  • Latvian: “Lozanna”
  • Lithuanian: “Lozana”
  • Low German: “Lausanne”
  • Malay: “Lausanne”
  • Norwegian: “Lausanne”
  • Oromo: “Lausanne”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਊਸੈਨ”
  • Persian: “لوزان”
  • Polish: “Lozanna”
  • Portuguese: “Lausana”
  • Pushto: “لوزان”
  • Romanian: “Lausanne”
  • Romansh: “Losanna”
  • Russian: “Лозанна”
  • Serbian: “Лозана”
  • Slovak: “Lausanne”
  • Somali: “Lausanne”
  • Spanish: “Lausana”
  • Swahili: “Lausanne”
  • Swedish: “Lausanne”
  • Tajik: “Лозанна”
  • Tatar: “Лозанна”
  • Thai: “โลซาน”
  • Turkish: “Lozan”
  • Urdu: “لوزان”
  • Uzbek: “Lozanna”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Clinique et Permanence de Longeraie and Lausanne railway station.

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