Saône
The Saône is a river in eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Rhône, rising at Vioménil in the Vosges department and joining the Rhône in Lyon, at the southern end of the Presqu'île.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river of France
- Also known as: “La Saône Rivière” and “Saone”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aquarium du Grand Lyon and École normale supérieure de Lyon.
Aquarium du Grand Lyon
Public aquarium
Photo: Zopeuse, Public domain.École normale supérieure de Lyon
University
Musée des Confluences
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Mulatière and Gerland.
La Mulatière
Village
Saône
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Greater Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.72826° or 45° 43′ 42″ north
Longitude
4.81742° or 4° 49′ 3″ east
Elevation
164 metres (538 feet)
Open location code
8FQ6PRH8+8X
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saône” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saône”
- Arabic: “نهر السون”
- Aragonese: “Río Saona”
- Armenian: “Սոն”
- Arpitan: “Sona”
- Asturian: “Ríu Saône”
- Azerbaijani: “Sona”
- Basque: “Saona”
- Belarusian: “Сона”
- Breton: “Saône”
- Bulgarian: “Сона”
- Catalan: “Saona”
- Chinese: “桑恩河”
- Chinese: “索恩河”
- Chuvash: “Сона”
- Czech: “Saôna”
- Dimli (individual language): “Saône”
- Dutch: “Saone”
- Dutch: “Saône”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ساون”
- Esperanto: “Saône”
- Estonian: “Saône”
- Finnish: “Saône”
- French: “Saône”
- Galician: “Río Saona, río Ródano”
- Galician: “Río Saona”
- Georgian: “სონა”
- German: “Saône”
- Greek: “Σον”
- Hebrew: “סון”
- Hungarian: “Saône”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Saône”
- Irish: “Saône”
- Italian: “Saona”
- Japanese: “ソーヌ川”
- Kazakh: “Сона”
- Korean: “손강”
- Latin: “Arar”
- Latin: “Sauconna”
- Latvian: “Sona”
- Lithuanian: “Sona”
- Luxembourgish: “Saône”
- Macedonian: “Сона”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saône”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saône”
- Norwegian: “Saône”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sòna”
- Ossetian: “Сонæ”
- Persian: “سون”
- Piemontese: “Saône (fium)”
- Piemontese: “Saône”
- Polish: “Saona”
- Portuguese: “Rio Saône”
- Romanian: “Saône”
- Romansh: “Saône”
- Russian: “Сона”
- Scots: “Saône”
- Serbian: “Саона”
- Serbian: “Сона”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saône”
- Sindhi: “سون ندي”
- Slovak: “Saôna”
- Slovenian: “Saona”
- South Azerbaijani: “سون چایی”
- Spanish: “rio Saona”
- Spanish: “río Saona”
- Spanish: “Río Saona”
- Spanish: “rio Saone”
- Spanish: “río Saône”
- Spanish: “Saona”
- Spanish: “Saone”
- Spanish: “Saône”
- Swahili: “Mto Saône”
- Swedish: “Saône”
- Swiss German: “Saône”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำโซน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Saône”
- Turkish: “Saône”
- Ukrainian: “Сона”
- Venetian: “Fiume Saona”
- Vietnamese: “Saône”
- Welsh: “Afon Saône”
- Western Frisian: “Saône”
- Wu Chinese: “淞河”
- Yue Chinese: “桑恩河”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as La Mulatière and Chassagnes.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Place Docteurs Charles et Christophe Mérieux and Oullins Railway Station.
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