Hauts-de-France
Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement of Arras

Arras

Arras is an attractive town in the region of . It was much fought-over in World War I and is mainly visited by tourists travelling from or to the nearby ports of and .
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  • Type: City with 42,600 residents
  • Description: commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
  • Also known as: “Atrecht”
  • Postal code: 62000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arras station and Musée des beaux-arts d’Arras.

Railway station
Photo: Floflo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station serving the town Arras, department, northern . This station, which opened in 1846, is located on the Paris–Lille railway and Arras-Dunkirk railway and accessible from LGV Nord.

Museum
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 4.0.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras is located in the old Abbey of St. Vaast in Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Town hall
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 4.0.
The is a historic building in Arras, , northern , standing at the northwest end of the Place Des Heros in the centre of the town, and its bell-tower representing the main landmark in the town.

Arras

Latitude
50.291° or 50° 17′ 28″ north
Longitude
2.7772° or 2° 46′ 38″ east
Population
42,600
Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)
IATA airport code
QRV
United Nations Location Code
FR ARR
Open location code
9F247QRG+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691994
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3036784
Wiki­data ID
Q131329
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Arras” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Arras”
  • Albanian: “Arras”
  • Arabic: “أراس”
  • Aragonese: “Arras”
  • Armenian: “Առաս”
  • Armenian: “Ատրեխտ”
  • Armenian: “Արրաս”
  • Arpitan: “Arras”
  • Asturian: “Arras”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arras”
  • Bambara: “Arras”
  • Basque: “Arras”
  • Bavarian: “Arras”
  • Belarusian: “Арас”
  • Breton: “Arras”
  • Bulgarian: “Арас”
  • Cajun French: “Arras”
  • Catalan: “Arras”
  • Catalan: “Arràs”
  • Catalan: “Atrecht”
  • Catalan: “Nemetacum”
  • Cebuano: “Arras”
  • Chechen: “АгӀгӀас”
  • Chinese: “Arras”
  • Chinese: “阿拉斯”
  • Chuvash: “Аррас”
  • Corsican: “Arras”
  • Croatian: “Arras”
  • Czech: “Arras”
  • Dagbani: “Arras”
  • Danish: “Arras”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Arras”
  • Dutch: “Arras”
  • Dutch: “Atrecht”
  • Dutch: “Nemetacum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اراس”
  • Esperanto: “Araso”
  • Esperanto: “Arras”
  • Estonian: “Arras”
  • Estonian: “Atrebatum”
  • Estonian: “Nemetacum Atrebatum”
  • Estonian: “Nemetacum”
  • Estonian: “Nemetocenna”
  • Faroese: “Arras”
  • Finnish: “Arras”
  • French: “Arrageois”
  • French: “Arras”
  • French: “Atrecht”
  • French: “Nemetacum”
  • French: “Nemetocenna”
  • Friulian: “Arras”
  • Galician: “Arras, Francia”
  • Galician: “Arras”
  • Georgian: “არასი”
  • German: “Arras”
  • German: “Atrebatae”
  • German: “Atrecht”
  • Greek: “Αράς”
  • Greek: “Άτρεχτ”
  • Hebrew: “אראס”
  • Hebrew: “ארה”
  • Hungarian: “Arras”
  • Icelandic: “Arras”
  • Ido: “Arras”
  • Indonesian: “Arras”
  • Indonesian: “Atrecht”
  • Interlingua: “Arras”
  • Interlingue: “Arras”
  • Irish: “Arras”
  • Italian: “Arras”
  • Italian: “Atrebatum”
  • Italian: “Atrecht”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Arras”
  • Japanese: “アラス”
  • Kabyle: “Arras”
  • Kalaallisut: “Arras”
  • Kazakh: “Аррас”
  • Kongo: “Arras”
  • Korean: “아라스”
  • Kurdish: “Arras”
  • Ladin: “Arras”
  • Latin: “Arras”
  • Latin: “Civitas Atrebatum”
  • Latin: “Nemetacum”
  • Latin: “Nemetocenna”
  • Latvian: “Arasa”
  • Latvian: “Arrasa”
  • Ligurian: “Arras”
  • Limburgan: “Arras”
  • Lithuanian: “Arasas”
  • Lombard: “Arras”
  • Low German: “Arras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Arras”
  • Macedonian: “Арас”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Arras”
  • Malagasy: “Arras”
  • Malay: “Arras”
  • Mazanderani: “ار (فرانسه)”
  • Mazanderani: “ار”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Arras”
  • Minangkabau: “Arras”
  • Narom: “Arras”
  • Neapolitan: “Arras”
  • Northern Frisian: “Arras”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arras”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arras”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Atrecht”
  • Norwegian: “Arras”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Arras”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Arràs”
  • Ossetian: “Аррас”
  • Papiamento: “Arras”
  • Persian: “آراس”
  • Persian: “ار”
  • Picard: “Aro”
  • Picard: “Aros”
  • Piemontese: “Arras”
  • Polish: “Arras”
  • Portuguese: “Arras”
  • Prussian: “Arras”
  • Romagnol: “Arras”
  • Romanian: “Arras”
  • Romansh: “Arras”
  • Russian: “Аррас”
  • Russian: “Неметоценна”
  • Sardinian: “Arras”
  • Scots: “Arras”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Arras”
  • Serbian: “Aras”
  • Serbian: “Arras”
  • Serbian: “Арас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arras”
  • Sicilian: “Arras”
  • Silesian: “Arras (Francyjo)”
  • Silesian: “Arras”
  • Slovak: “Arras”
  • Slovenian: “Arras”
  • Spanish: “Arras”
  • Spanish: “Arrás”
  • Spanish: “Atrecht”
  • Swahili: “Arras”
  • Swedish: “Arras”
  • Swedish: “Atrecht”
  • Swiss German: “Arras”
  • Tagalog: “Arras”
  • Tamil: “அராஸ்”
  • Tamil: “ஆரஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Аррас”
  • Thai: “Arras”
  • Thai: “อาร์ราส”
  • Thai: “อารัส”
  • Turkish: “Arras”
  • Twi: “Arras”
  • Ukrainian: “Арра”
  • Ukrainian: “Аррас”
  • Urdu: “آراس”
  • Uzbek: “Arras”
  • Venetian: “Arras”
  • Vietnamese: “Arras”
  • Vlaams: “Arras”
  • Vlaams: “Atrecht”
  • Volapük: “Arras”
  • Walloon: “Arras”
  • Walloon: “Atraik”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arras”
  • Welsh: “Arras”
  • Welsh: “Atrebatum”
  • Welsh: “Atrecht”
  • Western Frisian: “Arras”
  • Western Frisian: “Atert”
  • Western Frisian: “Atrecht”
  • Wolof: “Arras”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿拉斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿拉斯”
  • Zulu: “Arras”
  • “Arras”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Arras”. Photo: Mélanie Huguet, CC BY-SA 3.0.