North
Arrondissement of Lille
Roubaix

Roubaix

Roubaix is a city in northern France, located in the metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial commune in the department, which grew rapidly in the 19th century from its textile industries, with most of the same characteristic features as those of English and American boom towns.
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  • Type: Town with 98,900 residents
  • Description: commune in Nord, France
  • Also known as: “Robaais” and “Robeke”
  • Postal code: 59100

Places of Interest

Highlights include EDHEC Business School and Roubaix Velodrome.

College
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The École des Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord, commonly known as or simply EDHEC, is a French business school and grande école founded in 1906.

Stadium
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The is a velodrome in Roubaix, , France. It was opened in 1936 and has hosted the finish of the one-day "monument classic" cycling race Paris–Roubaix since 1943, and the Paris–Roubaix Femmes since its inception in 2021.

Railway station
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Roubaix station is a railway station serving the town Roubaix, department, northern .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tourcoing and Wattrelos.

Town
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is a city in northern on the border. It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of . Located to the north-northeast of , adjacent to Roubaix, is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest city in the French region of ranked by population with about 97,000 inhabitants. is situated 3½ km north of Roubaix.

Town
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is a commune in the Nord department in the region of northern . It is located on the border with , northeast of the city of .

Town
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is a commune in the department in northern France. It is located northeast of the city of about 7 km from the centre. The headquarters of Auchan, a hypermarket chain, are located in .

Roubaix

Latitude
50.6916° or 50° 41′ 30″ north
Longitude
3.1742° or 3° 10′ 27″ east
Population
98,900
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
IATA airport code
XRX
United Nations Location Code
FR ROU
Open location code
9F25M5RF+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691501
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2982681
Wiki­data ID
Q34001
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Roubaix” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Roubaix”
  • Afrikaans: “Roubaix”
  • Albanian: “Roubaix”
  • Amharic: “ሩቤ”
  • Arabic: “روباي”
  • Arabic: “روبيه”
  • Arabic: “مدينة روبيه”
  • Aragonese: “Roubaix”
  • Armenian: “Ռուբե”
  • Arpitan: “Roubêx”
  • Asturian: “Roubaix”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rube”
  • Bakhtiari: “روبه”
  • Bambara: “Roubaix”
  • Basque: “Roubaix”
  • Bavarian: “Roubaix”
  • Belarusian: “Рубе”
  • Belarusian: “Рубэ”
  • Bengali: “রুবে”
  • Bislama: “Roubaix”
  • Bosnian: “Roubaix”
  • Breton: “Roubaix”
  • Bulgarian: “Рубе”
  • Burmese: “ရူးဗေ့မြို့”
  • Burmese: “ရူဘယ်မြို့”
  • Cajun French: “Roubaix”
  • Catalan: “Roubaix”
  • Cebuano: “Roubaix”
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: “ⵔⵓⴱⵦ”
  • Central Bikol: “Roubaix”
  • Chechen: “ГӀубе”
  • Cherokee: “ᎷᏇ”
  • Chinese: “Roubaix”
  • Chinese: “魯比”
  • Chinese: “魯貝”
  • Chinese: “鲁贝”
  • Chuvash: “Рубе”
  • Cornish: “Roubaix”
  • Corsican: “Roubaix”
  • Croatian: “Roubaix”
  • Czech: “Roubaix”
  • Dagbani: “Roubaix”
  • Danish: “Roubaix”
  • Dutch: “Robaais”
  • Dutch: “Robeke”
  • Dutch: “Roodebeeke”
  • Dutch: “Roubaix”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روبيه”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه روبيه”
  • Esperanto: “Robaais”
  • Esperanto: “Robeke”
  • Esperanto: “Roubaix”
  • Estonian: “Roubaix”
  • Ewe: “Roubaix”
  • Extremaduran: “Roubaix”
  • Faroese: “Roubaix”
  • Finnish: “Roubaix”
  • French: “Robaais”
  • French: “Robeke”
  • French: “Roubaix”
  • Friulian: “Roubaix”
  • Fulah: “Roubaix”
  • Gagauz: “Roubaix”
  • Galician: “Roubaix”
  • Ganda: “Roubaix”
  • Georgian: “რუბე”
  • German: “Robaais”
  • German: “Robeke”
  • German: “Roubaix”
  • Gothic: “𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍇”
  • Greek: “Ρουμπαί”
  • Gujarati: “રુબે”
  • Haitian: “Roube”
  • Haitian: “Woube”
  • Hausa: “Roubaix”
  • Hebrew: “רובה”
  • Hebrew: “רוּבֶּה”
  • Hindi: “रूबे”
  • Hungarian: “Roubaix”
  • Icelandic: “Roubaix”
  • Ido: “Roubaix”
  • Igbo: “Roubaix”
  • Indonesian: “Roubaix”
  • Interlingua: “Roubaix”
  • Interlingue: “Roubaix”
  • Irish: “Roubaix”
  • Italian: “Robaais”
  • Italian: “Robeke”
  • Italian: “Roubaix”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Roubaix”
  • Japanese: “ルーベ”
  • Javanese: “Roubaix”
  • Kabyle: “Roubaix”
  • Kalaallisut: “Roubaix”
  • Kannada: “ರೂಬೆ”
  • Kashubian: “Roubaix”
  • Kazakh: “Рубе”
  • Khmer: “ទីក្រុងរ៉ូបេ”
  • Kikuyu: “Roubaix”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Roubaix”
  • Kirghiz: “Рубе”
  • Kölsch: “Roubaix”
  • Kongo: “Roubaix”
  • Korean: “루베”
  • Kurdish: “Roubaix”
  • Ladin: “Roubaix”
  • Ladino: “Roubaix”
  • Lao: “ຣກຸປະ”
  • Latin: “Rosbacum”
  • Latvian: “Rubē”
  • Ligurian: “Roubaix”
  • Limburgan: “Roubaix”
  • Lingala: “Roubaix”
  • Lithuanian: “Rubė”
  • Lombard: “Roubaix”
  • Low German: “Robaais”
  • Low German: “Roubaix”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Roubaix”
  • Luxembourgish: “Roubaix”
  • Macedonian: “Рубе”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Roubaix”
  • Malagasy: “Roubaix”
  • Malay: “Roubaix”
  • Malayalam: “റൂബെ”
  • Manx: “Roubaix”
  • Maori: “Rube”
  • Marathi: “रूबे”
  • Mazanderani: “روبه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Roubaix”
  • Minangkabau: “Roubaix”
  • Mirandese: “Roubaix”
  • Moksha: “Рубэ”
  • Mongolian: “Рубе”
  • Narom: “Roubaix”
  • Neapolitan: “Roubaix”
  • Northern Frisian: “Roubaix”
  • Northern Sami: “Roubaix”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Roubaix”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roubaix”
  • Norwegian: “Roubaix”
  • Nyanja: “Roubaix”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Robaais”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Robeke”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Roubaix”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rube”
  • Oromo: “Rube”
  • Ossetian: “Рубе”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੁਬੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Roubaix”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Roubaix”
  • Persian: “روبه”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Roubaix”
  • Picard: “Roubés”
  • Piemontese: “Roubaix”
  • Polish: “Roubaix”
  • Portuguese: “Roubaix”
  • Prussian: “Roubaix”
  • Pushto: “روبي (ښار)”
  • Pushto: “روبي”
  • Quechua: “Roubaix”
  • Romagnol: “Roubaix”
  • Romanian: “Roubaix”
  • Romansh: “Roubaix”
  • Rundi: “Roubaix”
  • Russian: “Рубе”
  • Sango: “Roubaix”
  • Sardinian: “Roubaix”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Roubaix”
  • Scots: “Roubaix”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roubaix”
  • Serbian: “Roubaix”
  • Serbian: “Рубе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Roubaix”
  • Shona: “Roubaix”
  • Sicilian: “Roubaix”
  • Silesian: “Roubaix”
  • Slovak: “Roubaix”
  • Slovenian: “Roubaix”
  • Somali: “Roubaix”
  • South Azerbaijani: “روبه”
  • Spanish: “Robaais”
  • Spanish: “Robeke”
  • Spanish: “Roubaix”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Roubaix”
  • Swahili: “Roubaix”
  • Swedish: “Roubaix”
  • Swiss German: “Roubaix”
  • Tagalog: “Roubaix”
  • Tahitian: “Roubaix”
  • Tajik: “Рубе”
  • Tamil: “ருபெ”
  • Tatar: “Рубе”
  • Telugu: “రూబే”
  • Thai: “รูแบ”
  • Thai: “รูแบร์”
  • Tok Pisin: “Roubaix”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Roubaix”
  • Tswana: “Roubaix”
  • Turkish: “Roubaix”
  • Turkmen: “Roubaix”
  • Twi: “Roubaix”
  • Ukrainian: “Рубе”
  • Ukrainian: “Рубе́”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Roubaix”
  • Urdu: “روبی”
  • Uzbek: “Roubaix”
  • Uzbek: “Rube”
  • Venetian: “Roubaix”
  • Veps: “Rube”
  • Vietnamese: “Roubaix”
  • Vlaams: “Roboais”
  • Volapük: “Roubaix”
  • Walloon: “Roubaix”
  • Walloon: “Roubés”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Roubaix”
  • Welsh: “Roubaix”
  • Western Frisian: “Roubaix”
  • Western Panjabi: “روبے”
  • Wolof: “Roubaix”
  • Wu Chinese: “鲁贝”
  • Yiddish: “רובע”
  • Yoruba: “Roubaix”
  • Yue Chinese: “魯貝”
  • Yue Chinese: “鲁比”
  • Zeeuws: “Robaais”
  • Zulu: “Roubaix”
  • “Roubaix”

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