Bas-Rhin
Bas-Rhin is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its lower altitude among the two French Rhine departments: it is downstream of the Haut-Rhin department.
- Type: department of France with 1,160,000 residents
- Description: French administrative district of the European Collectivity of Alsace
- Also known as: “Basa Rejno”, “Basrejno”, “departamentul Bas-Rhin”, “département du Bas-Rhin”, “Departement Niederrhein”, “Lower Rhine”, “Malalta Rejno”, “Niederrhein”, “Ніжні Рэйн (дэпартамент)”, “Рэйн Ніжні”, and “בא-רן”
- Neighbors: Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kochersberg and Château du Kochersberg.
Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur de Kuttolsheim
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gougenheim and Gingsheim.
Gougenheim
Village
Gingsheim
Village
Bas-Rhin
- Location: Grand Est, France, Europe
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Latitude
48.6569° or 48° 39′ 25″ north
Longitude
7.5635° or 7° 33′ 49″ east
Population
1,160,000
Elevation
200 metres (656 feet)
Open location code
8FW9MH47+Q9
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bas-Rhin” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bas-Rhin”
- Albanian: “Bas-Rhin”
- Arabic: “الراين الأسفل”
- Aragonese: “Baixo Rin”
- Armenian: “Ներքին Ռեն”
- Armenian: “Ստորին Հռենոս”
- Arpitan: “Bâs-Rin”
- Arpitan: “Rin-d’Avâl”
- Asturian: “Baxu Rin”
- Azerbaijani: “Aşağı Reyn”
- Balinese: “Bas-Rhin”
- Basque: “Rhin Beherea”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Ніжні Рэйн”
- Belarusian: “Ніжні Райн”
- Belarusian: “Ніжні Рэйн”
- Bengali: “বা-রেঁ”
- Breton: “Roen-Izel”
- Bulgarian: “Ба Рен”
- Catalan: “Baix Rin”
- Cebuano: “Bas-Rhin”
- Chechen: “Лаха ГӀейн”
- Chinese: “下莱茵省”
- Chinese: “下萊茵省”
- Chuvash: “Анатри Рейн”
- Chuvash: “Аялти Рейн”
- Corsican: “Bassu Renu”
- Croatian: “Bas-Rhin”
- Czech: “Bas-Rhin”
- Dagbani: “Departement Bas-Rhin”
- Danish: “Bas-Rhin”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bas-Rhin”
- Dimli (individual language): “Reno Cêrên”
- Dutch: “Bas-Rhin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “با-ران”
- Esperanto: “Bas-Rhin”
- Estonian: “Bas-Rhini departemang”
- Finnish: “Bas-Rhin”
- French: “Bas-Rhin”
- French: “Département du Bas-Rhin”
- Galician: “Baixo Rin”
- Georgian: “ქვემო რეინი”
- German: “Bas-Rhin (Unterelsass)”
- German: “Bas-Rhin”
- German: “Département Bas-Rhin”
- German: “Elsass”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bas-Rhin”
- Greek: “Κάτω Ρήνος”
- Gujarati: “બાસ-રાઈન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Hâ Rhin-sén”
- Hebrew: “ריין תחתון”
- Hindi: “बा-रें”
- Hindi: “बास-राइन”
- Hungarian: “Bas-Rhin”
- Indonesian: “Bas-Rhin”
- Interlingua: “Basse Rheno”
- Irish: “Bas-Rhin”
- Italian: “Basso Reno”
- Japanese: “バ＝ラン県”
- Jèrriais: “Rhin-de-Bas”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಸ್-ರೈನ್”
- Kazakh: “Төменгі Рейн”
- Kongo: “Bas-Rhin”
- Korean: “바랭주”
- Ladin: “Bas-Rhin”
- Ladino: “Bajo Rin”
- Latin: “Rhenus inferior”
- Latin: “Rhenus Inferior”
- Latvian: “Lejasreina”
- Limburgan: “Bas-Rhin”
- Lithuanian: “Žemutinis Reinas”
- Lombard: “Bas-Rhin”
- Low German: “Bas-Rhin”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Bas-Rhin”
- Macedonian: “Долна Рајна”
- Malagasy: “Bas-Rhin”
- Malay: “Bas-Rhin”
- Malayalam: “ബാസ്-റിൻ”
- Maltese: “Bas-Rhin”
- Marathi: “बास-ऱ्हिन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bas-Rhin”
- Northern Frisian: “Bas-Rhin (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Bas-Rhin”
- Northern Sami: “Bas-Rhin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bas-Rhin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bas-Rhin”
- Norwegian: “Bas-Rhin”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bas Ren”
- Ossetian: “Дæллаг Рейн (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Дæллаг Рейн”
- Pampanga: “Bas-Rhin”
- Persian: “با-رن”
- Persian: “به-رن”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Bass Ren”
- Polish: “Dolny Ren”
- Portuguese: “Baixo Reno”
- Romanian: “Bas-Rhin”
- Russian: “Нижний Рейн”
- Sardinian: “Bàsciu Renu”
- Scots: “Bas-Rhin”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bas-Rhin”
- Serbian: “Доња Рајна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bas-Rhin”
- Sinhala: “බාස්-රින්”
- Slovak: “Bas-Rhin”
- Slovenian: “Bas-Rhin”
- Spanish: “Bajo Rin”
- Swahili: “Bas-Rhin”
- Swedish: “Bas-Rhin”
- Swiss German: “Bas-Rhin”
- Swiss German: “Département Bas-Rhin”
- Swiss German: “Nieder-Elsass”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Ба-Рейн”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Рейн Нижний”
- Tamil: “பஸ் -ரஹீன்”
- Telugu: “బాస్-రైన్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดบา-แร็ง”
- Turkish: “Bas-Rhin”
- Ukrainian: “Нижній Рейн”
- Urdu: “زیریں-رن”
- Uzbek: “Bas-Rhin”
- Venetian: “Baso Reno”
- Vietnamese: “Bas-Rhin”
- Vlaams: “Bas-Rhin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bas-Rhin”
- Welsh: “Bas-Rhin”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع بیس رہائن”
- Wu Chinese: “下莱茵省”
- Yue Chinese: “下萊茵”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Schnersheim and Ittlenheim.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Mahdi Mosque and Abbaye de Notre-Dame d’Altbronn.
Grand Est: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Strasbourg and Reims.
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