North Rhine-Westphalia
Cologne Lowland
Cologne District

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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  • Type: City with 1,070,000 residents
  • Description: most populous city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Also known as: “Augusta Ubiorum”, “Coellen”, “Cologne (Germany)”, “Cologne, Germany”, “Colonia Agrippinensis”, “Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium - in Laitn”, “Koeln”, “Kölle”, “Köln”, and “Kreisfreie Stadt Köln”
  • Postal code: 50861
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cologne Cathedral and Cologne Central Station.

Church
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is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Railway station
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Köln Hauptbahnhof is the central railway station of Cologne, Germany. The station is an important local, national and international transport hub, with many ICE, Eurostar and Intercity trains calling there, as well as regional Regional-Express, RegionalBahn and local S-Bahn trains.

Stadium
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is an indoor arena, in Cologne, , Germany. It is known as the 18,500-capacity home of the Kölner Haie and as one of Germany's major music venues.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ehrenfeld and Deutz.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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The Cologne borough of is a part of central Cologne, , and was once an independent town known as am Rhein.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood of Cologne, and part of the district of . lies on the left bank of the river Rhine, between the district of to the North and Marienburg neighbourhood to the South.

Cologne

Latitude
50.9384° or 50° 56′ 18″ north
Longitude
6.96° or 6° 57′ 36″ east
Population
1,070,000
Elevation
58 metres (190 feet)
IATA airport code
CGN
United Nations Location Code
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: “قلونية”
  • Arabic: “قُلُونِيَة”
  • Arabic: “كولن”
  • Arabic: “كولونيا”
  • Aragonese: “Colonia”
  • Armenian: “Քյոլն”
  • Arpitan: “Köln”
  • Asturian: “Colonia”
  • Asturian: “Köln”
  • 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: “کۆلن”
  • Chavacano: “Colonia”
  • Chechen: “Кёльн”
  • Chechen: “Коьльн”
  • Chinese: “Kēlóng”
  • Chinese: “Köln”
  • Chinese: “古龍”
  • 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”
  • Erzya: “Кёльн ош”
  • Erzya: “Кёльн”
  • Esperanto: “Kolonjo”
  • Estonian: “Köln”
  • Extremaduran: “Colonia”
  • Faroese: “Köln”
  • Finnish: “Cologne”
  • Finnish: “Köln”
  • French: “Cologne (Allemagne)”
  • French: “Cologne, Allemagne”
  • French: “Cologne”
  • French: “Keulen”
  • Friulian: “Köln”
  • Galician: “Colonia, Alemaña”
  • Galician: “Colonia”
  • Georgian: “კელნი”
  • Georgian: “კიოლნი”
  • German: “CCAA”
  • German: “Cöln am Rhein”
  • German: “Cöln”
  • German: “Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium”
  • German: “Colonia”
  • German: “Kölle”
  • German: “Köln (Deutschland)”
  • German: “Köln, Deutschland”
  • German: “Köln”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍉𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Κολωνία”
  • Gujarati: “કોલોગ્ને”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cologne”
  • Hausa: “Köln”
  • Hebrew: “קוילן”
  • Hebrew: “קולון”
  • Hebrew: “קולוניא”
  • Hebrew: “קלן”
  • Hindi: “कलोन्”
  • Hindi: “कोलोन”
  • Hungarian: “Köln”
  • Icelandic: “Köln”
  • Ido: “Köln”
  • Indonesian: “Cologne”
  • Indonesian: “Köln”
  • Interlingua: “Colonia”
  • Interlingue: “Köln”
  • Irish: “Köln”
  • Italian: “Colonia (Germania)”
  • Italian: “Colonia, Germania”
  • Italian: “Colonia”
  • Japanese: “ケルン”
  • Javanese: “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: “Koln”
  • 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”
  • Narom: “Köln”
  • Nauru: “Köln”
  • Neapolitan: “Köln”
  • Nepali: “कोलोग्ने”
  • Northern Frisian: “Köln”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Köln”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Køln”
  • 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: “Colónia”
  • Portuguese: “Colônia”
  • Portuguese: “Köln”
  • 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”
  • Sicilian: “Culonia”
  • Silesian: “Köln”
  • Sindhi: “ڪولون”
  • Sinhala: “කලෝන්”
  • Slovak: “Kolín nad Rýnom”
  • Slovenian: “Kelmorajn”
  • Slovenian: “Koln”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Köln”
  • 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: “Köln”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Colonia”
  • Welsh: “Cwlen”
  • Welsh: “Köln”
  • 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”
  • “Cologne”
  • “Culògna”
  • “Kiolns”
  • “Köln”
  • “ma tomo Kolon”

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