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.
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  • City with about 1,030,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 50 metres (170 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code CGN
  • Description: most populous city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Postal code: 50861
  • Also known as
    “Augusta Ubiorum”
    “Cologne (Germany)”
    “Colonia Agrippinensis”
    “Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium - in Laitn”
    “Koeln”
    “Kölle”
    “Kreisfreie Stadt Köln”
  • Historically known as
    “Coellen”
    “Cöln”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cologne Cathedral and Cologne Central Station.
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Church
is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, , .
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Railway station
Köln Hauptbahnhof is the central railway station of Cologne, Germany.
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Stadium
is an indoor arena, in Cologne, , Germany.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ehrenfeld and Deutz.
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Suburb
is a suburb.
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Suburb
The Cologne borough of is a part of central…
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Suburb
is a neighbourhood of Cologne, and part of the district of .

Cologne

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Latitude
50.9384° or 50° 56′ 18″ north
Longitude
6.96° or 6° 57′ 36″ east
UN/LOCODE
DE CGN
Open location code
9F28WXQ5+8X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20953083
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2886242
Wiki­data ID
Q365

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Cologne” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Keulen”
  • Albanian: “Këlni”
  • Amharic: “ኮልን”
  • Arabic: “قُلُونِيَة”
  • Arabic: “كولن”
  • Arabic: “كولونيا”
  • Aragonese: “Colonia”
  • Armenian: “Քյոլն”
  • Arpitan: “Köln”
  • Asturian: “Colonia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Köln”
  • Balinese: “Köln”
  • Basque: “Kolonia”
  • Bavarian: “Köln”
  • Belarusian: “Кёльн”
  • Bengali: “কোলন”
  • Bosnian: “Köln”
  • Breton: “Köln”
  • Breton: “Kolun”
  • Bulgarian: “Кьолн”
  • Burmese: “ကိုလုန်းမြို့”
  • Burmese: “ကိုလုံးမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Colònia”
  • Cebuano: “Köln (kapital sa distrito nga gobyerno)”
  • Cebuano: “Köln”
  • Cebuano: “Kreisfreie Stadt Köln”
  • Central Kurdish: “کوێلن”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆلن”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆڵن”
  • Chavacano: “Colonia”
  • Chechen: “Кёльн”
  • Chechen: “Коьльн”
  • Chinese: “Kēlóng”
  • Chinese: “科隆”
  • Chuvash: “Кёльн”
  • Corsican: “Cologna”
  • Corsican: “Colonia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Köln”
  • Croatian: “Köln”
  • Czech: “Kolín nad Rýnem”
  • Czech: “Kolín”
  • Danish: “Köln”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Köln”
  • Dutch: “Keulen”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кёльн”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولونيا”
  • Emilian: “Culògna”
  • Erzya: “Кёльн ош”
  • Erzya: “Кёльн”
  • Esperanto: “Kölle”
  • Esperanto: “Köln”
  • Esperanto: “Kolonjo”
  • Estonian: “Köln”
  • Extremaduran: “Colonia”
  • Faroese: “Köln”
  • Finnish: “Cologne”
  • Finnish: “Köln”
  • French: “Cologne (Allemagne)”
  • French: “Cologne”
  • French: “Keulen”
  • Friulian: “Köln”
  • Galician: “Colonia, Alemaña”
  • Galician: “Colonia”
  • Georgian: “კელნი”
  • Georgian: “კიოლნი”
  • German: “CCAA”
  • German: “Coeln”
  • German: “Cöln am Rhein”
  • German: “Cöln”
  • German: “Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium”
  • German: “Colonia”
  • German: “Kölle”
  • German: “Köln (Deutschland)”
  • German: “Köln am Rhein”
  • German: “Köln”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍉𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Κολωνία”
  • Gujarati: “કોલોગ્ને”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cologne”
  • Hausa: “Köln”
  • Hebrew: “קוילן”
  • Hebrew: “קולון”
  • Hebrew: “קולוניא”
  • Hebrew: “קלן”
  • Hindi: “कलोन्”
  • Hungarian: “Köln”
  • Icelandic: “Köln”
  • Ido: “Köln”
  • Indonesian: “Cologne”
  • Indonesian: “Köln”
  • Interlingua: “Colonia”
  • Interlingue: “Köln”
  • Irish: “Köln”
  • Italian: “Colonia (Germania)”
  • Italian: “Colonia”
  • Japanese: “ケルン”
  • Javanese: “Köln”
  • Jèrriais: “Köln”
  • Kabyle: “Köln”
  • Kannada: “ಕಲೋನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಡುಸ್ಬುರ್ಕ್”
  • Kashubian: “Kôln”
  • Kazakh: “Кёльн”
  • Kirghiz: “Кёльн”
  • Kirghiz: “Көлн”
  • Kölsch: “Colonia”
  • Kölsch: “Kölle”
  • Kölsch: “Köln”
  • Kongo: “Köln”
  • Korean: “쾰른”
  • Kotava: “Köln”
  • Kurdish: “Kolin”
  • Kurdish: “Köln”
  • Ladin: “Köln”
  • Latin: “Colognia”
  • Latin: “Colonia Agrippina”
  • Latin: “Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium”
  • Latin: “Oppidum Ubiorum”
  • Latvian: “Ķelne”
  • Ligurian: “Colonia”
  • Limburgan: “Kölle”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Köln”
  • Lithuanian: “Kelnas”
  • Lombard: “Colonia”
  • Low German: “Keulen”
  • Low German: “Köln”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Köln”
  • Luxembourgish: “Köln”
  • Macedonian: “Келн”
  • Malagasy: “Köln”
  • Malay: “Cologne”
  • Malayalam: “കൊളോൺ”
  • Maltese: “Cologne”
  • Maltese: “Köln”
  • Manx: “Koloin”
  • Marathi: “क्योल्न”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Köln”
  • Minangkabau: “Köln”
  • Mingrelian: “კელნი”
  • Moksha: “Кёльн”
  • Mongolian: “Кёльн”
  • Nauru: “Köln”
  • Neapolitan: “Köln”
  • Nepali: “कोलोग्ने”
  • Northern Frisian: “Köln”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Köln”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Köln”
  • Norwegian: “Köln”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Colonha”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Coln”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Colne”
  • Ossetian: “Кёльн”
  • Pampanga: “Cologne”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਲਨ”
  • Persian: “کلن”
  • Picard: “Köln”
  • Picard: “Kolonne”
  • Piemontese: “Colònia”
  • Polish: “Köln”
  • Polish: “Kolonia”
  • Portuguese: “Colônia”
  • Pushto: “کولن”
  • Quechua: “Köln”
  • Romanian: “Köln”
  • Romansh: “Köln”
  • Russian: “Кёльн”
  • Samogitian: “Kiolns”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱳᱞᱳᱜᱽᱱᱮ”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱳᱞᱳᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Colonia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Köln”
  • Scots: “Cologne”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Köln”
  • Serbian: “Köln”
  • Serbian: “Келн, Немачка”
  • Serbian: “Келн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Köln”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းၵူဝ်ႇလူင်း”
  • Sicilian: “Culonia”
  • Silesian: “Köln”
  • Sindhi: “ڪولون”
  • Sinhala: “කලෝන්”
  • Slovak: “Kolín nad Rýnom”
  • Slovenian: “Kelmorajn”
  • Slovenian: “Köln”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کولن”
  • Spanish: “Colonia (Alemania)”
  • Spanish: “Colonia”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵓⵍⵓⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Köln”
  • Swedish: “Cologne”
  • Swedish: “Köln”
  • Swiss German: “Köln”
  • Tachelhit: “Kulunya”
  • Tagalog: “Cologne”
  • Tagalog: “Colonia”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Cologne”
  • Tajik: “Кёлн”
  • Tamil: “கோல்ன்”
  • Tatar: “Кёльн”
  • Tatar: “Көлн”
  • Telugu: “కొలోన్”
  • Thai: “โคโลญ”
  • Tumbuka: “Cologne”
  • Turkish: “CCAA”
  • Turkish: “Colonia Agrippina”
  • Turkish: “Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium”
  • Turkish: “Colonia”
  • Turkish: “Kölle”
  • Turkish: “Köln”
  • Turkish: “Kreisfreie Stadt Köln”
  • Twi: “Köln”
  • Udmurt: “Кёльн”
  • Uighur: “Kolon”
  • Ukrainian: “Кельн”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Köln”
  • Urdu: “کلن (علاقہ)”
  • Urdu: “کلن”
  • Urdu: “کولن شہر”
  • Urdu: “کولن”
  • Urdu: “کولون”
  • Uzbek: “Kyoln”
  • Venetian: “Cołogna”
  • Veps: “Köl’n”
  • Vietnamese: “Cologne”
  • Vietnamese: “Köln”
  • Vlaams: “Köln”
  • Vlax Romani: “Cologne”
  • Volapük: “Köln”
  • Võro: “Köln”
  • Walloon: “Kölle/Köln”
  • Walloon: “Köln”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colonia”
  • Welsh: “Cwlen”
  • Western Frisian: “Keulen”
  • Western Mari: “Кӧльн”
  • Western Panjabi: “کلون”
  • Western Panjabi: “کولن”
  • Wolof: “Köln”
  • Wu Chinese: “科隆”
  • Yiddish: “קעלן”
  • Yue Chinese: “古龍 (德國)”
  • Yue Chinese: “古龍”
  • Zeeuws: “Keulen”
  • Zulu: “Köln”
  • “ma tomo Kele”
  • “ma tomo Ken”

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