Aachen
Aachen is a historically important city, spa and university centre in North Rhine-Westphalia, situated at the "three lands corner" where the borders of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet.
- Type: City with 242,000 residents
- Description: city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as: “Aachen (munisipyo)”, “Aĥeno”, “Aix la Chapelle”, “Axen”, “Bad Aachen”, “Αιξ-λα-Σαπέλ”, “Ախեն”, “آکن”, “ریپوآری”, and “亞琛”
- Neighbors: Heerlen, Herzogenrath, Kelmis, Kerkrade, Simpelveld, and Vaals
Places of Interest
Highlights: Aachen Cathedral and Aachen Town Hall.
Aachen Town Hall
Town hall
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forst and Laurensberg.
Aachen
- Categories: big city, college town, border city, spa town, urban municipality in Germany, free imperial city, urban district of North Rhine-Westphalia, special municipality association of Germany, district capital, and locality
- Location: Aachen, Cologne District, Eifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.7751° or 50° 46′ 30″ north
Longitude
6.0833° or 6° 5′ east
Population
242,000
Elevation
266 metres (873 feet)
IATA airport code
AAH
UN/LOCODE
DE AAH
Open location code
9F28Q3GM+28
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Aachen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aken”
- Amharic: “አኽን”
- Arabic: “آخن”
- Aragonese: “Aachen”
- Aragonese: “Aquisgrán”
- Armenian: “Աախեն”
- Arpitan: “Aachen”
- Asturian: “Aquisgrán”
- Azerbaijani: “Aaxen”
- Balinese: “Aachen”
- Basque: “Akisgran”
- Bavarian: “Aachen”
- Belarusian: “Аахэн”
- Belarusian: “Ахен”
- Bengali: “আখেন”
- Bosnian: “Aachen”
- Breton: “Aac’hen”
- Breton: “Aachen”
- Bulgarian: “Аахен”
- Bulgarian: “Ахен”
- Catalan: “Aquisgrà”
- Cebuano: “Aachen”
- Central Kurdish: “ئاخن”
- Chechen: “Ахен”
- Chinese: “亚琛”
- Chinese: “阿亨”
- Corsican: “Aquisgrana”
- Croatian: “Aachen”
- Czech: “Cáchy”
- Danish: “Aachen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Aachen”
- Dimli (individual language): “Axın”
- Dutch: “Aken”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اخين”
- Esperanto: “Aachen”
- Esperanto: “Akeno”
- Estonian: “Aachen”
- Finnish: “Aachen”
- French: “Aix-la-Chapelle”
- Friulian: “Aachen”
- Galician: “Aquisgrán”
- Georgian: “აახენი”
- German: “Aachen”
- German: “Kreisfreie Stadt Aachen”
- Greek: “Άαχεν”
- Gujarati: “આકેન”
- Hebrew: “אאכן”
- Hindi: “आखन”
- Hindi: “आख़न”
- Hindi: “आचेन”
- Hungarian: “Aachen”
- Icelandic: “Aachen”
- Ido: “Aachen”
- Indonesian: “Aachen”
- Interlingua: “Aachen”
- Interlingua: “Aquisgrano”
- Interlingue: “Aachen”
- Irish: “Aachen”
- Italian: “Aquisgrana”
- Japanese: “アーヘン”
- Jèrriais: “Aachen”
- Kannada: “ಆಖೇನ್”
- Kannada: “ಆಚೆನ್”
- Kashubian: “Achen”
- Kazakh: “Ахен”
- Kirghiz: “Ахен”
- Kölsch: “Aachen”
- Kölsch: “Oche”
- Kongo: “Aachen”
- Korean: “아헨”
- Kotava: “Aachen”
- Kurdish: “Aachen”
- Ladin: “Aachen”
- Latin: “Aquae Grani”
- Latin: “Aquisgranum”
- Latvian: “Āhene”
- Ligurian: “Aachen”
- Limburgan: “Aoke”
- Lithuanian: “Achenas”
- Lombard: “Aquisgrana”
- Low German: “Aachen”
- Low German: “Aken”
- Luxembourgish: “Oochen”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Aachen”
- Macedonian: “Ахен”
- Madurese: “Aachen”
- Malagasy: “Aachen”
- Malay: “Aachen”
- Malayalam: “ആക്കൻ”
- Malayalam: “ആഹ്ഹൻ”
- Maltese: “Aachen”
- Marathi: “आखन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aachen”
- Minangkabau: “Aachen”
- Moksha: “Аахэн”
- Mongolian: “Аахен”
- Mongolian: “Ахен”
- Neapolitan: “Aachen”
- Northern Frisian: “Aachen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aachen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aachen”
- Norwegian: “Aachen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aquisgran”
- Ossetian: “Ахен”
- Persian: “آخن”
- Picard: “Aachen”
- Piemontese: “Aachen”
- Polish: “Akwizgran”
- Portuguese: “Aachen”
- Portuguese: “Aquisgrano”
- Portuguese: “Aquisgrão”
- Pushto: “آخن”
- Quechua: “Aachen”
- Romanian: “Aachen”
- Romansh: “Aachen”
- Russian: “Ахен”
- Sardinian: “Aachen”
- Saterfriesisch: “Aachen”
- Scots: “Aachen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aachen”
- Serbian: “Aachen”
- Serbian: “Ахен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aachen”
- Sicilian: “Aquisgrana”
- Silesian: “Aachen”
- Sinhala: “ආචෙන්”
- Slovak: “Aachen”
- Slovenian: “Aachen”
- South Azerbaijani: “آخن”
- Spanish: “Aquisgrán”
- Swahili: “Aachen”
- Swedish: “Aachen”
- Swiss German: “Aachen”
- Tagalog: “Aachen”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Aachen”
- Tajik: “Аахен”
- Talysh: “Aaxen”
- Tamil: “ஆஃகன்”
- Tatar: “Ахен”
- Telugu: “ఆకెన్”
- Thai: “อาเคิน”
- Tumbuka: “Aachen”
- Turkish: “Aachen”
- Ukrainian: “Аахен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Aachen”
- Urdu: “آچن”
- Urdu: “آخن”
- Uzbek: “Aachen”
- Venetian: “Aachen”
- Vietnamese: “Aachen”
- Vlaams: “Aachen”
- Volapük: “Aachen”
- Walloon: “Åxhe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aachen”
- Welsh: “Aachen”
- Western Frisian: “Aken”
- Western Panjabi: “آخن”
- Wolof: “Aachen”
- Wu Chinese: “亚琛”
- Yue Chinese: “阿臣”
- Zeeuws: “Aken”
- Zulu: “Aachen”
- “Aachen”
- “ma tomo Aken”
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