Hauts-de-France
Oise
Arrondissement of Beauvais

Beauvais

Beauvais is a town in Oise , approximately 90 km from the centre of . It is known for its 13th-century cathedral, which has beautiful stained glass windows and a spectacular 18th-century astronomical clock.
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  • Type: Town with 56,700 residents
  • Description: French commune in Oise
  • Also known as: “Beawayes”, “Bieuvais”, “Duthil-la-Montagne”, and “La Chaussée-de-la-Montagne”
  • Postal codes: 60000 and 60000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Beauvais Saint-Peter Cathedral and Beauvais station.

Church
Photo: Pepijntje, Public domain.
Beauvais Cathedral otherwise the Cathedral of Saint Peter of Beauvais is a Catholic church in the northern town of Beauvais, , . It is the seat of the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon and Senlis.

Railway station
Photo: Chatsam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beauvais is a railway station located in Beauvais in the department, France. TER Hauts-de-France trains connect the station to Le Tréport-Mers, Creil and .

Town hall
Photo: Lppa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hôtel de Ville is a municipal building in Beauvais, , northern France, standing on Place Jean-Hachette. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1912.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Martin-le-Nœud.

Village
Photo: Chatsam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in northern . is situated 4 km southwest of Beauvais.

Beauvais

Latitude
49.4301° or 49° 25′ 48″ north
Longitude
2.0823° or 2° 4′ 56″ east
Population
56,700
Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“Duthil-la-Montagne”
Name during the French Revolution
“La Chaussée-de-la-Montagne”
United Nations Location Code
FR BVA
Open location code
8FX4C3JJ+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691861
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3034006
Wiki­data ID
Q174257
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Beauvais” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Beauvais”
  • Albanian: “Beauvais”
  • Amharic: “ቦቬ”
  • Arabic: “بوفيه”
  • Aragonese: “Beauvais”
  • Armenian: “Բովե”
  • Arpitan: “Beauvais”
  • Asturian: “Beauvais”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bove”
  • Bambara: “Beauvais”
  • Basque: “Beauvais”
  • Bavarian: “Beauvais”
  • Belarusian: “Бавэ”
  • Breton: “Beauvais”
  • Cajun French: “Beauvais”
  • Catalan: “Beauvais”
  • Catalan: “Bratuspanzio”
  • Cebuano: “Beauvais”
  • Chechen: “Бове”
  • Chinese: “Beauvais”
  • Chinese: “博韋”
  • Chinese: “博韦”
  • Chinese: “波威”
  • Chuvash: “Бове”
  • Corsican: “Beauvais”
  • Croatian: “Beauvais”
  • Czech: “Beauvais”
  • Danish: “Beauvais”
  • Dutch: “Beauvais”
  • Dutch: “Caesaromagus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوفيه”
  • Esperanto: “Beauvais”
  • Estonian: “Beauvais”
  • Faroese: “Beauvais”
  • Finnish: “Beauvais”
  • French: “Beauvais”
  • French: “Bracheux”
  • French: “Duthil-la-Montagne”
  • French: “La Chaussée-de-la-Montagne”
  • French: “Le Plouy-Louvet”
  • French: “Marissel”
  • French: “Notre-Dame-du-Thil (réunie à Beauvais)”
  • French: “Notre-Dame-du-Thil”
  • French: “Saint-Just-des-Marais (réunie à Beauvais)”
  • French: “Saint-Just-des-Marais”
  • French: “Voisinlieu”
  • French: “Wagicourt”
  • Friulian: “Beauvais”
  • Galician: “Beauvais”
  • German: “Beauvais”
  • Greek: “Μπωβαί”
  • Hebrew: “בווה”
  • Hungarian: “Beauvais”
  • Icelandic: “Beauvais”
  • Ido: “Beauvais”
  • Indonesian: “Beauvais”
  • Interlingua: “Beauvais”
  • Interlingue: “Beauvais”
  • Irish: “Beauvais”
  • Italian: “Beauvais”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Beauvais”
  • Japanese: “ボーヴェ”
  • Japanese: “ボーベ”
  • Kabyle: “Beauvais”
  • Kalaallisut: “Beauvais”
  • Kongo: “Beauvais”
  • Korean: “보베”
  • Kurdish: “Beauvais”
  • Ladin: “Beauvais”
  • Latin: “Bellovacum”
  • Latin: “Bratuspantium”
  • Latvian: “Bovē”
  • Ligurian: “Beauvais”
  • Limburgan: “Beauvais”
  • Lithuanian: “Beauvais”
  • Lithuanian: “Bovė”
  • Low German: “Beauvais”
  • Luxembourgish: “Beauvais”
  • Macedonian: “Бове”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Beauvais”
  • Malagasy: “Beauvais”
  • Malay: “Beauvais”
  • Maltese: “Beauvais”
  • Mazanderani: “بووه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Beauvais”
  • Minangkabau: “Beauvais”
  • Moksha: “Бовэ”
  • Narom: “Beauvais”
  • Narom: “Biauvais”
  • Neapolitan: “Beauvais”
  • Northern Frisian: “Beauvais”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beauvais”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beauvais”
  • Norwegian: “Beauvais”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Beauvais”
  • Ossetian: “Бове”
  • Papiamento: “Beauvais”
  • Persian: “بووه”
  • Picard: “Bieuvais”
  • Piemontese: “Beauvais”
  • Polish: “Beauvais”
  • Portuguese: “Beauvais”
  • Prussian: “Beauvais”
  • Romagnol: “Beauvais”
  • Romanian: “Beauvais”
  • Romansh: “Beauvais”
  • Russian: “Бове”
  • Russian: “Бовэ”
  • Russian: “Цезаромагус”
  • Sardinian: “Beauvais”
  • Scots: “Beauvais”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Beauvais”
  • Serbian: “Beauvais”
  • Serbian: “Bove”
  • Serbian: “Бове”
  • Serbian: “Бовоа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beauvais”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bove”
  • Sicilian: “Beauvais”
  • Silesian: “Beauvais”
  • Slovak: “Beauvais”
  • Slovenian: “Beauvais”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بووه”
  • Spanish: “Beauvais”
  • Spanish: “Bratuspancio”
  • Spanish: “Bratuspantium”
  • Swahili: “Beauvais”
  • Swedish: “Beauvais”
  • Swedish: “Paris/Beauvais”
  • Swiss German: “Beauvais”
  • Tatar: “Бове”
  • Thai: “โบแว”
  • Turkish: “Beauvais”
  • Ukrainian: “Бове”
  • Uzbek: “Beauvais”
  • Uzbek: “Bove”
  • Venetian: “Beauvais”
  • Vietnamese: “Beauvais”
  • Vlaams: “Beauvais”
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  • Walloon: “Beauvais”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beauvais”
  • Welsh: “Beauvais”
  • Western Frisian: “Beauvais”
  • Wolof: “Beauvais”
  • Wu Chinese: “博韦”
  • Yue Chinese: “波威”
  • Zulu: “Beauvais”
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