Drôme
Arrondissement of Valence
Valence

Valence

Valence is a commune in southeastern France, the prefecture of the department and within the region. It is situated on the left bank of the , about 100 kilometres south of , along the railway line that runs from Paris to .
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  • Type: City with 64,500 residents
  • Description: French commune in Drôme
  • Also known as: “Valença”, “Valence-sur-Rhône”, and “Valence, Drôme”
  • Postal codes: 26000 and 26000
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Valence-Ville station and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valence.

Railway station
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is a railway station serving the town Valence, department, southeastern . It is situated on the Paris–Marseille railway, and is the southern terminus of a branch line to Grenoble.

Museum
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is a museum.

Town hall
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The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Valence, Drôme, southeast , standing on Place de la Liberté. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 2018.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bourg-lès-Valence and Guilherand-Granges.

Town
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is a commune in the department in southeastern France. It is a suburb of Valence. The archaeologist and Hellenist Fernand Courby was born in .

Town
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is a commune in the department in southern . It is a suburb of Valence, Drôme. It is one of the most populous communes in the Ardéche department, after and , and before .

Village
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is a commune in the department in the region in southern . Historically part of the royal province of Vivarais, it has been a significant settlement since the 15th century when inhabitants moved from the fortified castle of Crussol to the valley of Mialan.

Valence

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
node 26692215
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2971053
Wiki­data ID
Q8848
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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”
  • 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”
  • Catalan: “Valinça”
  • Cebuano: “Valence, Drôme”
  • Cebuano: “Valence”
  • Chechen: “Валанс”
  • Chinese: “Valence”
  • Chinese: “瓦朗斯”
  • Chinese: “華朗斯”
  • Chuvash: “Валанс”
  • Corsican: “Valence”
  • Croatian: “Valence”
  • Czech: “Valence”
  • Danish: “Valence”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Valence, Drôme”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Valence”
  • Dutch: “Valence (Drome)”
  • Dutch: “Valence”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فالانس”
  • Esperanto: “Valence”
  • Estonian: “Valence”
  • Faroese: “Valence”
  • Finnish: “Valence”
  • French: “Valence-sur-Rhône”
  • French: “Valence, France”
  • 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”
  • Italian: “Valenza”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Valence”
  • Japanese: “ヴァランス”
  • 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”
  • Narom: “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-sur-Rhône”
  • Scots: “Valence”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Valence”
  • Serbian: “Valence”
  • Serbian: “Валанс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Valence”
  • Sicilian: “Valence”
  • Silesian: “Valence”
  • Slovak: “Valence”
  • Slovenian: “Valence”
  • Spanish: “Valence-sur-Rhône”
  • 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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