Belfort
Belfort is a city in northeastern France, situated approximately 25 km from the Swiss border. It is the prefecture of the Territoire de Belfort. Belfort is 400 km from Paris and 55 km from Basel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 45,200 residents
- Description: commune in Territoire de Belfort, France
- Postal codes: 90000 and 90000
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lion of Belfort and Belfort Cathedral.
Lion of Belfort
Work of art
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0.
The Lion of Belfort, in Belfort, France, is an 1880 monumental sculpture by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty.
Belfort Cathedral
Church
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Belfort Cathedral, otherwise the Cathedral of Saint Christopher of Belfort, is a Roman Catholic church located in Belfort, Territoire de Belfort, France.
Prefecture hotel of Belfort
Public building
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Prefecture hotel of Belfort is a public building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Essert and Châlonvillars.
Essert
Village
Photo: Rauenstein, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essert is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France. Essert is situated 3½ km west of Belfort.
Châlonvillars
Village
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Châlonvillars is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Between 1973 and 1989, it was united with Mandrevillars in the commune Châlonvillars-Mandrevillars. Châlonvillars is situated 5 km west of Belfort.
Belfort
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Belfort, Arrondissement of Belfort, Territoire de Belfort, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
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Latitude
47.638° or 47° 38′ 17″ northLongitude
6.8629° or 6° 51′ 46″ eastPopulation
45,200Elevation
362 metres (1,188 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR BOROpen location code
8FV8JVQ7+55OpenStreetMap ID
node 26692111OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Belfort” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Belfort”
- Albanian: “Belfort”
- Arabic: “البلفور”
- Arabic: “بلفور”
- Arabic: “مدينة بلفور”
- Aragonese: “Belfort”
- Armenian: “Բելֆոր”
- Arpitan: “Belfort”
- Arpitan: “Bélfôrt”
- Asturian: “Belfort”
- Bambara: “Belfort”
- Basque: “Belfort”
- Bavarian: “Belfort”
- Belarusian: “Бельфор”
- Belarusian: “Бэльфор”
- Breton: “Belfort”
- Bulgarian: “Белфор”
- Cajun French: “Belfort”
- Catalan: “Belfort”
- Cebuano: “Belfort”
- Chechen: “БельфогӀ”
- Chinese: “Belfort”
- Chinese: “貝爾福”
- Chinese: “贝尔福”
- Chuvash: “Бельфор”
- Corsican: “Belfort”
- Croatian: “Belfort”
- Czech: “Belfort”
- Danish: “Belfort”
- Dutch: “Belfort (stad)”
- Dutch: “Belfort”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلفور”
- Esperanto: “Belfort”
- Estonian: “Belfort”
- Faroese: “Belfort”
- Finnish: “Belfort”
- French: “Belfort”
- French: “cité du Lion”
- Friulian: “Belfort”
- Galician: “Belfort”
- German: “Befert”
- German: “Beffert”
- German: “Belfort”
- Greek: “Μπελφόρ”
- Hebrew: “בלפור”
- Hungarian: “Belfort”
- Icelandic: “Belfort”
- Ido: “Belfort”
- Indonesian: “Béfô”
- Indonesian: “Belfort”
- Interlingua: “Belfort”
- Interlingue: “Belfort”
- Irish: “Belfort”
- Italian: “Belfort”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Belfort”
- Japanese: “ベルフォール”
- Kabyle: “Belfort”
- Kalaallisut: “Belfort”
- Kongo: “Belfort”
- Korean: “벨포르”
- Ladin: “Belfort”
- Latin: “Belfort”
- Latin: “Belfortium”
- Latvian: “Belfora”
- Latvian: “Belfort”
- Latvian: “Belforta”
- Ligurian: “Belfort”
- Limburgan: “Belfort”
- Lithuanian: “Belforas”
- Low German: “Belfort”
- Luxembourgish: “Belfort”
- Macedonian: “Белфор”
- Mainfränkisch: “Belfort”
- Malagasy: “Belfort”
- Malay: “Belfort”
- Mazanderani: “بلفور”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Belfort”
- Minangkabau: “Belfort”
- Narom: “Belfort”
- Neapolitan: “Belfort”
- Northern Frisian: “Belfort”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belfort”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Belfort”
- Norwegian: “Belfort”
- Novial: “Belfort”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Belfòrt”
- Ossetian: “Бельфор”
- Papiamento: “Belfort”
- Persian: “بلفور”
- Pfaelzisch: “Belfort”
- Picard: “Belfort”
- Piemontese: “Belfort”
- Polish: “Belfort”
- Portuguese: “Belfort”
- Prussian: “Belfort”
- Romagnol: “Belfort”
- Romanian: “Belfort”
- Romansh: “Belfort”
- Russian: “Бельфор”
- Sardinian: “Belfort”
- Scots: “Belfort”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Belfort”
- Serbian: “Belfor”
- Serbian: “Belfort”
- Serbian: “Белфор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Belfort”
- Sicilian: “Belfort”
- Silesian: “Belfort”
- Slovak: “Belfort”
- Slovenian: “Belfort”
- South Azerbaijani: “بلفور”
- Spanish: “Belfort”
- Swahili: “Belfort”
- Swedish: “Belfort”
- Swiss German: “Belfort”
- Tatar: “Бельфор”
- Thai: “แบลฟอร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Belfort”
- Turkish: “Belfort”
- Ukrainian: “Бельфор”
- Urdu: “بیلفوغ”
- Uzbek: “Belfort”
- Venetian: “Belfort”
- Vietnamese: “Belfort”
- Vlaams: “Belfort”
- Volapük: “Belfort”
- Walloon: “Belfort”
- Waray (Philippines): “Belfort”
- Welsh: “Belfort”
- Wolof: “Belfort”
- Wu Chinese: “贝尔福”
- Yue Chinese: “貝爾福”
- Zulu: “Belfort”
- “Belfort”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Maison (18 rue Metzger, Belfort) and Maison d’arrêt de Belfort.
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