Valence
Valence is a commune in southeastern France, the prefecture of the Drôme department and within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is situated on the left bank of the Rhône, about 100 kilometres south of Lyon, along the railway line that runs from Paris to Marseille.
- Type: City with 64,500 residents
- Description: French commune in Drôme
- Also known as: “Valence (Drome)”, “Valence-sur-Rhône”, “Valence, Drôme”, “Valence, France”, “Valenza”, and “Valinça”
- Postal code: 26000
Places of Interest
Highlights: Valence-Ville station and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valence.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bourg-lès-Valence and Guilherand-Granges.
Bourg-lès-Valence
Town
Guilherand-Granges
Town
Valence
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Valence, Arrondissement of Valence, Drôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.9332° or 44° 55′ 60″ north
Longitude
4.8921° or 4° 53′ 32″ east
Population
64,500
Elevation
126 metres (413 feet)
IATA airport code
VAF
Open location code
8FP6WVMR+7R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Valence” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Valence”
- Albanian: “Valence”
- Arabic: “بلنسية”
- Arabic: “فالانس”
- Aragonese: “Valença”
- Aragonese: “Valence”
- Armenian: “Վալանս”
- Arpitan: “Valence”
- Asturian: “Valence”
- Azerbaijani: “Valans”
- Balinese: “Valence, Drôme”
- Bambara: “Valence”
- Bambara: “Valencia”
- Basque: “Valence”
- Bavarian: “Valence”
- Belarusian: “Валанс”
- Belarusian: “Валянс”
- Breton: “Valença”
- Buginese: “Valence, Drôme”
- Buginese: “Valence”
- Bulgarian: “Валанс”
- Cajun French: “Valence”
- Catalan: “Valença”
- Cebuano: “Valence, Drôme”
- Cebuano: “Valence”
- Chechen: “Валанс”
- Chinese: “瓦朗斯”
- Chuvash: “Валанс”
- Corsican: “Valence”
- Croatian: “Valence”
- Czech: “Valence”
- Danish: “Valence”
- Dimli (individual language): “Valence, Drôme”
- Dimli (individual language): “Valence”
- Dutch: “Valence”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فالانس”
- Esperanto: “Valence”
- Estonian: “Valence”
- Faroese: “Valence”
- Finnish: “Valence”
- French: “Valence”
- Friulian: “Valence”
- Galician: “Valence, Drôme”
- Galician: “Valence”
- Georgian: “ვალანსი”
- German: “Valence”
- Greek: “Βαλάνς”
- Hebrew: “ואלנס”
- Hindi: “वलांस”
- Hungarian: “Valence”
- Icelandic: “Valence”
- Ido: “Valence”
- Indonesian: “Valence, Drôme”
- Indonesian: “Valence”
- Interlingua: “Valence”
- Interlingue: “Valence”
- Irish: “Valence”
- Italian: “Valence”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Valence”
- Japanese: “ヴァランス”
- Jèrriais: “Valence”
- Kabyle: “Valence”
- Kalaallisut: “Valence”
- Kongo: “Valence”
- Korean: “발랑스”
- Ladin: “Valence”
- Latin: “Valentia”
- Latvian: “Valansa”
- Ligurian: “Valence”
- Limburgan: “Valence”
- Lithuanian: “Valansas”
- Lombard: “Valence”
- Low German: “Valence”
- Luxembourgish: “Valence”
- Macedonian: “Валанс”
- Mainfränkisch: “Valence”
- Malagasy: “Valence”
- Malay: “Valence, Drôme”
- Malay: “Valence”
- Mazanderani: “ولانس، دروم”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Valence”
- Minangkabau: “Valence”
- Neapolitan: “Valence”
- Northern Frisian: “Valence”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Valence”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Valence”
- Norwegian: “Valence”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Valença”
- Ossetian: “Валанс”
- Papiamento: “Valence”
- Persian: “ولانس، دروم”
- Persian: “ولانس”
- Picard: “Valence”
- Piemontese: “Valence”
- Polish: “Valence”
- Portuguese: “Valence”
- Prussian: “Valence”
- Romagnol: “Valence”
- Romanian: “Valence, Drôme”
- Romanian: “Valence”
- Romansh: “Valence”
- Russian: “Валанс”
- Sardinian: “Valence”
- Scots: “Valence”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Valence”
- Serbian: “Valence”
- Serbian: “Валанс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Valence”
- Sicilian: “Valence”
- Silesian: “Valence”
- Slovak: “Valence”
- Slovenian: “Valence”
- Spanish: “Valence”
- Spanish: “Valencia”
- Swahili: “Valence, Drôme”
- Swahili: “Valence”
- Swedish: “Valence, Drôme”
- Swedish: “Valence”
- Swiss German: “Valence”
- Tajik: “Валонс”
- Tatar: “Валанс”
- Tumbuka: “Valence, Drôme”
- Turkish: “Valence, Drôme”
- Turkish: “Valence”
- Ukrainian: “Валанс”
- Urdu: “ویلانس، دغوم”
- Uzbek: “Valence”
- Venetian: “Valence”
- Vietnamese: “Valence, Drôme”
- Vietnamese: “Valence”
- Vlaams: “Valence”
- Volapük: “Valence”
- Walloon: “Valence”
- Waray (Philippines): “Valence, Drôme”
- Waray (Philippines): “Valence”
- Welsh: “Valence, Drôme”
- Welsh: “Valence”
- Western Armenian: “Վալանս”
- Wolof: “Valence”
- Wu Chinese: “瓦朗斯”
- Yue Chinese: “華朗斯”
- Zulu: “Valence”
- “Valence”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Le Bourg and Saint Pierre.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Théâtre de la Ville and Relais Poste.
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