Bayonne
Bayonne is a town in Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the southwest corner of France, part of the Basque region straddling the border with Spain. It's part of the triple township of BAB, Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne, which in 2021 had a population of 309,392, and as a tourist destination it's been overshadowed by the more famous Biarritz.Photo: Daniel VILLAFRUELA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Town with 52,700 residents
- Description: commune in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
- Also known as: “Baiona” and “Bayona”
- Postal code: 64100
Places of Interest
Highlights include Musée Bonnat-Helleu and Stade Jean Dauger.
Musée Bonnat-Helleu
Museum
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The Musée Bonnat-Helleu is an art museum in Bayonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The museum was created in 1901 when Bayonne-born painter Léon Bonnat gave his extensive personal collections of art – notably an exceptional drawing collection – as well as many of his paintings to the City of Bayonne.
Stade Jean Dauger
Stadium
Photo: Daniel VILLAFRUELA, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stade Jean-Dauger is a multi-purpose stadium in Bayonne, France. It is currently used mostly for rugby union matches and is the home stadium of Aviron Bayonnais.
Bayonne Cathedral
Church
Photo: Pinpin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of Bayonne or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Bayonne, commonly known as Bayonne Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Bayonne, France.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anglet and Boucau.
Anglet
Town
Photo: Dvillafruela, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Anglet is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France. Anglet lies in the traditional province of Labourd of the Northern Basque Country while its inhabitants have traditionally spoken Gascon. Anglet is situated 3½ km southwest of Bayonne.
Boucau
Village
Photo: Khardan, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
Boucau is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. It is located in the former province of Labourd. Boucau is situated 3½ km north of Bayonne.
Saint-Pierre-d’Irube
Village
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Saint-Pierre-d'Irube is a village and a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. It is part of the traditional Basque province of Labourd.
Bayonne
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.4945° or 43° 29′ 40″ northLongitude
-1.4737° or 1° 28′ 25″ westPopulation
52,700Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)IATA airport code
XBYUnited Nations Location Code
FR BAYOpen location code
8CMWFGVG+RGOpenStreetMap ID
node 1690923675OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3034475Wikidata ID
Q134674
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bayonne” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Baiona”
- Afrikaans: “Bayonne”
- Albanian: “Bajona”
- Albanian: “Bayonne”
- Arabic: “Baiona”
- Arabic: “Bayonne”
- Arabic: “بايون”
- Arabic: “بيونة”
- Aragonese: “Baiona”
- Aragonese: “Bayona”
- Armenian: “Բայոնա”
- Arpitan: “Bayonne”
- Asturian: “Baiona”
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- Azerbaijani: “Bayonna”
- Bambara: “Bayonne”
- Basque: “Baiona”
- Basque: “Bayona”
- Basque: “Bayonne”
- Basque: “Lapurdum”
- Bavarian: “Bayonne”
- Belarusian: “Baiona”
- Belarusian: “Bayonne”
- Belarusian: “Баёна”
- Bengali: “Baiona”
- Bengali: “Bayonne”
- Bengali: “বায়ন”
- Breton: “Baiona”
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- Bulgarian: “Байон”
- Bulgarian: “Байона”
- Cajun French: “Bayonne”
- Catalan: “Baiona”
- Catalan: “Bayona”
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- Cebuano: “Baiona”
- Cebuano: “Bayonne”
- Chechen: “Байонна”
- Chinese: “Bayonne”
- Chinese: “巴約訥”
- Chinese: “巴约讷”
- Chuvash: “Байонна”
- Corsican: “Baiona”
- Corsican: “Bayonne”
- Croatian: “Baiona”
- Croatian: “Bajona”
- Croatian: “Bayonne”
- Czech: “Baiona”
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- Danish: “Baiona”
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- Dutch: “Baiona”
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- Egyptian Arabic: “Baiona”
- Egyptian Arabic: “Bayonne”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بايون”
- Esperanto: “Baiona”
- Esperanto: “Bajono”
- Esperanto: “Bayonne”
- Estonian: “Baiona”
- Estonian: “Bayonne”
- Faroese: “Bayonne”
- Finnish: “Bayonne”
- French: “Baiona”
- French: “Bayonnais”
- French: “Bayonne”
- French: “Espace urbain de Bayonne”
- French: “Ville de Bayonne”
- Friulian: “Bayonne”
- Galician: “Baiona, Francia”
- Galician: “Baiona”
- Galician: “Bayonne”
- Georgian: “ბაიონა”
- German: “Baiona”
- German: “Bayona”
- German: “Bayonne”
- Greek: “Μπαγιόν”
- Hebrew: “Baiona”
- Hebrew: “Bayonne”
- Hebrew: “באיון”
- Hebrew: “ביון”
- Hindi: “बायोन”
- Hungarian: “Bayonne”
- Icelandic: “Bayonne”
- Ido: “Bayonne”
- Indonesian: “Bayonne”
- Interlingua: “Bayonne”
- Interlingue: “Bayonne”
- Irish: “Baiona”
- Italian: “Baiona”
- Italian: “Bayonne”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Bayonne”
- Japanese: “Baiona”
- Japanese: “Bayonne”
- Japanese: “バイヨナ”
- Japanese: “バイヨンヌ”
- Kabyle: “Bayonne”
- Kalaallisut: “Bayonne”
- Kazakh: “Байонна”
- Kongo: “Bayonne”
- Korean: “바욘”
- Kotava: “Bayonne”
- Kurdish: “Bayonne”
- Ladin: “Bayonne”
- Latin: “Baiona”
- Latvian: “Baijonna”
- Latvian: “Baiona”
- Ligurian: “Bayonne”
- Limburgan: “Bayonne”
- Lithuanian: “Bajona”
- Livvi: “Baiona”
- Low German: “Baiona”
- Low German: “Bayonne”
- Luxembourgish: “Bayonne”
- Macedonian: “Бајона”
- Mainfränkisch: “Bayonne”
- Malagasy: “Bayonne”
- Malay: “Bayonne”
- Mazanderani: “بایون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bayonne”
- Minangkabau: “Bayonne”
- Narom: “Bayonne”
- Neapolitan: “Bayonne”
- Northern Frisian: “Bayonne”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bayonne”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baiona”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bayonne”
- Norwegian: “Bayonne”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Baiona”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bayonne”
- Ossetian: “Байоннæ”
- Papiamento: “Bayonne”
- Persian: “بایون”
- Picard: “Bayonne”
- Piemontese: “Baiona”
- Piemontese: “Bayonne”
- Polish: “Baiona”
- Polish: “Bajonna”
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- Portuguese: “Baiona”
- Portuguese: “Bayonne”
- Prussian: “Bayonne”
- Romagnol: “Bayonne”
- Romanian: “Bayonne”
- Romansh: “Bayonne”
- Russian: “Baiona”
- Russian: “Bayonne”
- Russian: “Байона”
- Russian: “Байонн”
- Russian: “Байонна”
- Sardinian: “Bayonne”
- Scots: “Bayonne”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bayonne”
- Serbian: “Baione”
- Serbian: “Bajon”
- Serbian: “Bayonne”
- Serbian: “Бајон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Baiona”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bayonne”
- Sicilian: “Bayonne”
- Silesian: “Bayonne”
- Slovak: “Baiona”
- Slovak: “Bayonne”
- Slovenian: “Bayonne”
- South Azerbaijani: “Baiona”
- South Azerbaijani: “Bayonne”
- South Azerbaijani: “بایون”
- Spanish: “Baiona”
- Spanish: “Bayona”
- Spanish: “Bayonne”
- Spanish: “Lapurdum”
- Swahili: “Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques”
- Swahili: “Bayonne”
- Swedish: “Bayonne”
- Swiss German: “Bayonne”
- Tatar: “Байонна”
- Thai: “Baione”
- Thai: “Bayonne”
- Thai: “บายอน”
- Tumbuka: “Bayonne”
- Turkish: “Bayonne”
- Ukrainian: “Baiona”
- Ukrainian: “Bayonne”
- Ukrainian: “Байона”
- Ukrainian: “Байонн”
- Ukrainian: “Байонна”
- Urdu: “بایون”
- Uzbek: “Bayonne”
- Venetian: “Bayonne”
- Vietnamese: “Bayonne”
- Vlaams: “Bayonne”
- Volapük: “Bayonne”
- Walloon: “Bayonne”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bayonne”
- Welsh: “Baiona”
- Welsh: “Bayonne”
- Wolof: “Bayonne”
- Wu Chinese: “巴约讷”
- Yue Chinese: “巴約訥”
- Zulu: “Bayonne”
- “Bayonne”
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