Cologne

Cologne is a city on the Rhine river in . It is the fourth largest city in with around 1.1 million residents. It is one of the nation's media, tourism and business hotspots, and is considered one of the most liberal cities in Germany.
  • Locality with 1,020,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 58 metres (190 feet)
  • Also known as
    “05315000”
    “Koeln”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cologne Cathedral and Cologne Central Station.

Church
is a Catholic cathedral in , , .

Railway station
Köln Hauptbahnhof is the central railway station of , Germany.

Stadium
is an indoor arena, in , , Germany.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ehrenfeld and Hürth.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Town
Photo: HOWI, CC BY 3.0.
is a town in the , , . is situated 8 km southwest of Cologne.

Suburb
The Cologne borough of is a part of central…

Cologne

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Latitude
50.9384° or 50° 56′ 18″ north
Longitude
6.9543° or 6° 57′ 15″ east
Open location code
9F28WXQ3+8P
Geo­Names ID

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cologne” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Keulen”
  • Albanian: “Këlni”
  • Amharic: “ኮልን”
  • Arabic: “كولونيا”
  • Aragonese: “Colonia”
  • Armenian: “Քյոլն”
  • Basque: “Kolonia”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Кёльн”
  • Bulgarian: “Кьолн”
  • Burmese: “ကိုလုံးမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Colònia”
  • Chechen: “Кёльн”
  • Chinese: “科隆”
  • Czech: “Kolín nad Rýnem”
  • Dutch: “Keulen”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кёльн”
  • Esperanto: “Kolonjo”
  • Extremaduran: “Colonia”
  • French: “Cologne”
  • Galician: “Colonia”
  • Georgian: “კელნი”
  • German: “Köln”
  • German: “Stadt Köln”
  • Greek: “Κολωνία”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cologne”
  • Hebrew: “קלן”
  • Hindi: “कोलोन”
  • Interlingua: “Colonia”
  • Italian: “Colonia”
  • Japanese: “ケルン”
  • Kannada: “ಕಲೋನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кёльн”
  • Kirghiz: “Кёльн”
  • Kölsch: “Kölle”
  • Korean: “쾰른”
  • Latin: “Colonia Agrippina”
  • Latvian: “Ķelne”
  • Ligurian: “Colonia”
  • Limburgan: “Kölle”
  • Lithuanian: “Kelnas”
  • Lombard: “Colonia”
  • Macedonian: “Келн”
  • Malay: “Cologne”
  • Manx: “Koloin”
  • Marathi: “क्योल्न”
  • Mongolian: “Кёльн”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Colonha”
  • Ossetian: “Кёльн”
  • Pampanga: “Cologne”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਲਨ”
  • Persian: “کلن”
  • Piemontese: “Colònia”
  • Portuguese: “Colônia”
  • Russian: “Кёльн”
  • Samogitian: “Kiolns”
  • Sardinian: “Colonia”
  • Scots: “Cologne”
  • Serbian: “Келн”
  • Sicilian: “Culonia”
  • Slovak: “Kolín nad Rýnom”
  • Spanish: “Colonia”
  • Tagalog: “Cologne”
  • Tamil: “கோல்ன்”
  • Tatar: “Көлн”
  • Telugu: “కొలోన్”
  • Thai: “โคโลญ”
  • Tumbuka: “Cologne”
  • Udmurt: “Кёльн”
  • Uighur: “Kolon”
  • Ukrainian: “Кельн”
  • Urdu: “کولون”
  • Uzbek: “Kyoln”
  • Venetian: “Cołogna”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colonia”
  • Welsh: “Cwlen”
  • Western Frisian: “Keulen”
  • Western Mari: “Кӧльн”
  • Western Panjabi: “کلون”
  • Wu Chinese: “科隆”
  • Yiddish: “קעלן”
  • Yue Chinese: “古龍”

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