Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Ain
Arrondissement of Bourg-en-Bresse

Bourg-en-Bresse

Bourg-en-Bresse is the prefecture of the department in the region in Eastern . Located 70 km northeast of , it is the capital of the ancient province of . In 2018, the commune had a population of 41,248.
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  • Type: Town with 41,500 residents
  • Description: commune in Ain, France
  • Also known as: “Bledvin”, “Bourg-Épuré”, “Bourg-Régénéré”, “Commune-Affranchie”, “Commune-Neuve (ou Commune-Nouvelle)”, “Épi-d’Ain”, “Épi-d’Or (ou Épidor)”, and “Épy-d’Ain (ou Épi-d’Ain)”
  • Postal code: 01000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bourg-en-Bresse station and Royal Monastery of Brou.

Railway station
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is a railway station located in Bourg-en-Bresse, , eastern . The station was opened in 1855 and is located on the Ligne du Haut-Bugey, Mouchard–Bourg-en-Bresse railway, Lyon–Bourg-en-Bresse railway and Mâcon–Ambérieu railway.

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The is a religious complex located at Bourg-en-Bresse in the département, central . Made out of monastic buildings in addition to a church, they were built at the beginning of the 16th century by Margaret of Austria, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands.

Stadium
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is rugby union stadium located in Bourg-en-Bresse, . It is the home ground of Union Sportive Bressane, promoted to Rugby Pro D2 for the 2013–14 season.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Péronnas and Viriat.

Village
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is a commune in the department in the region in eastern .

Village
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is a commune in the department of eastern . is situated 5 km north of Bourg-en-Bresse.

Bourg-en-Bresse

Latitude
46.2051° or 46° 12′ 18″ north
Longitude
5.225° or 5° 13′ 30″ east
Population
41,500
Elevation
229 metres (751 feet)
Open location code
8FR7664G+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691470
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6446395
Wiki­data ID
Q133069
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Bourg-en-Bresse” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Afrikaans: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Albanian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Arabic: “بورغ أون بريس”
  • Arabic: “بورغ-اون-بريس، اين”
  • Aragonese: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Armenian: “Բուրկ ան Բրես”
  • Arpitan: “Bor”
  • Arpitan: “Bôrg”
  • Arpitan: “Bou”
  • Arpitan: “Bour”
  • Arpitan: “Bourk”
  • Asturian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Azerbaijani: “Burk-an-Bres”
  • Bambara: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Basque: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Bavarian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Belarusian: “Бург-ан-Брэс”
  • Belarusian: “Бурк-ан-Брэс”
  • Bengali: “বুরকঁব্রেস”
  • Breton: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Buginese: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Bulgarian: “Бург ан Брес”
  • Cajun French: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Catalan: “Bôrg”
  • Catalan: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Cebuano: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Chechen: “БугӀк-ан-БгӀес”
  • Chinese: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Chinese: “布雷斯地区布尔格”
  • Chinese: “布雷斯地區布爾格”
  • Chinese: “布雷斯堡”
  • Chuvash: “Бурк-ан-Брес”
  • Corsican: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Croatian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Czech: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Dagbani: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Danish: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Burg-an-Bres”
  • Dutch: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورج اون بريس”
  • Esperanto: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Estonian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Faroese: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Finnish: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • French: “01053”
  • French: “Bledvin”
  • French: “Bourg en Bresse”
  • French: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • French: “Bourg-Épuré”
  • French: “Bourg-Régénéré”
  • French: “Bourg”
  • French: “Commune-Affranchie”
  • French: “Commune-Neuve (ou Commune-Nouvelle)”
  • French: “Commune-Neuve”
  • French: “Commune-Nouvelle”
  • French: “Épi-d’Ain”
  • French: “Épi-d’Or (ou Épidor)”
  • French: “Épi-d’Or”
  • French: “Épidor”
  • French: “Épy-d’Ain (ou Épi-d’Ain)”
  • French: “Épy-d’Ain”
  • Friulian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Galician: “Bôrg”
  • Galician: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • German: “Bourg en Bresse”
  • German: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Greek: “Μπουρ-αν-Μπρες”
  • Hebrew: “בור-אן-ברס”
  • Hebrew: “בורק-אן-ברס”
  • Hungarian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Icelandic: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Ido: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Indonesian: “Bôrg”
  • Indonesian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Interlingua: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Interlingue: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Irish: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Italian: “Bourg en Bresse”
  • Italian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Japanese: “ブール・アン・ブレス”
  • Japanese: “ブール＝アン＝ブレス”
  • Japanese: “ブール＝カン＝ブレス”
  • Japanese: “ブール＝ガン＝ブレス”
  • Japanese: “ブルカン・ブレス”
  • Japanese: “ブルカンブレス”
  • Kabyle: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Kazakh: “Бурк-ан-Брес”
  • Kongo: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Korean: “부르캉브레스”
  • Kurdish: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Ladin: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Latin: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Latin: “Burgus Bressiae”
  • Latvian: “Burganbresa”
  • Ligurian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Limburgan: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Lithuanian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Lithuanian: “Breso Burgas”
  • Lombard: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Low German: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Macedonian: “Бург ан Брес”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Malagasy: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Malagasy: “Jean-François Debat”
  • Malay: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Maltese: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Mazanderani: “بوران برس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Minangkabau: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Moksha: “Бурк-ан-Брэсс”
  • Narom: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Neapolitan: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Northern Sami: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bôrg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Norwegian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Borg de Bressa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Ossetian: “Бург-ан-Бресс”
  • Pampanga: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Papiamento: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Persian: “بوران برس”
  • Persian: “بورک-آن-برس”
  • Persian: “بورک-ان-برس”
  • Persian: “بورگ-آن-برس”
  • Persian: “بورگ-ان-برس”
  • Picard: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Piemontese: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Polish: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Portuguese: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Prussian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Romagnol: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Romanian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Romansh: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Russian: “Бург-ан-Бресс”
  • Russian: “Бурк-ан-Брес”
  • Sardinian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Scots: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Serbian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Serbian: “Burg an Bres”
  • Serbian: “Бург ан Брес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Sicilian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Silesian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Slovak: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Slovenian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Spanish: “Bourg en Bresse”
  • Spanish: “Bourg en-Bresse”
  • Spanish: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Swahili: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Swedish: “Bourg en Bresse”
  • Swedish: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Swiss German: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Tagalog: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Tatar: “Бурк-ан-Брес”
  • Thai: “บูร์ก็องแบร็ส”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Turkish: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Ukrainian: “Бург-ан-Бресс”
  • Ukrainian: “Бурґ-ан-Бресс”
  • Uzbek: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Venetian: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Vietnamese: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Vlaams: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Volapük: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Walloon: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Welsh: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Wolof: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Wu Chinese: “布雷斯堡”
  • Yue Chinese: “布雷斯堡”
  • Zeeuws: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • Zulu: “Bourg-en-Bresse”
  • “Bourg-en-Bresse”

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