Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Côte-d’Or
Arrondissement of Dijon

Dijon

Dijon is the largest city in the eastern region of . Dijon is best known for its mustard, which is no longer produced in its metropolitan area.
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  • Type: City with 159,000 residents
  • Description: commune in Côte-d’Or, France
  • Postal codes: 21000 and 21000
Photo: François de Dijon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Lantus, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon and Dijon-Ville station.

Museum
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The is a of fine arts opened in 1787, in Dijon, . It is one of the main and oldest museums of France. It is located in the historic city centre of Dijon and housed in the former ducal palace which was the headquarters of the Burgundy State in the 15th century.

Railway station
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, sometimes simply Dijon, is a railway station located in Dijon, , eastern . The station was opened in 1849. It is located at the junction of Paris–Marseille, Dijon–Saint-Amour, Dijon–Is-sur-Tille, and Dijon-Vallorbe lines.

Church
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, or the Cathedral of Saint Benignus of Dijon, is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Dijon, Burgundy, , and dedicated to Saint Benignus of Dijon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chenôve and Centre-Ville.

Town
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is a commune in the department in the region of . Until 1955, it was a small-scale winegrowing village, when it was absorbed into the urban agglomeration of Dijon.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Dijon

Latitude
47.3216° or 47° 19′ 18″ north
Longitude
5.0415° or 5° 2′ 29″ east
Population
159,000
Elevation
240 metres (787 feet)
IATA airport code
DIJ
United Nations Location Code
FR DIJ
Open location code
8FV782CR+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26686504
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3021372
Wiki­data ID
Q7003
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Dijon” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Dijon”
  • Afrikaans: “Dijon”
  • Albanian: “Dijon”
  • Albanian: “Dizhoni”
  • Arabic: “ديجون”
  • Aragonese: “Dijon”
  • Armenian: “Դիժոն”
  • Arpitan: “Dij·on”
  • Arpitan: “Dijon”
  • Asturian: “Dijon”
  • Aymara: “Dijon”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dijon”
  • Balinese: “Dijon”
  • Bambara: “Dijon”
  • Bashkir: “Дижон”
  • Basque: “Dijon”
  • Bavarian: “Dijon”
  • Belarusian: “Дыжон”
  • Bengali: “দিজোঁ”
  • Breton: “Dijon”
  • Breton: “Dijoñ”
  • Buginese: “Dijon”
  • Bulgarian: “Дижон”
  • Burmese: “ဒီဂျောင်မြို့”
  • Cajun French: “Dijon”
  • Catalan: “Dijon”
  • Cebuano: “Dijon”
  • Central Kurdish: “دیجۆن”
  • Chamorro: “Dijon”
  • Chechen: “Дижон”
  • Chinese: “Dijon”
  • Chinese: “第戎”
  • Chuvash: “Дижон”
  • Corsican: “Dijon”
  • Croatian: “Dijon”
  • Czech: “Dijon”
  • Danish: “Dijon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dijon”
  • Dutch: “Dijon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديجون”
  • Esperanto: “Diĝono”
  • Esperanto: “Dijon”
  • Esperanto: “Diĵono”
  • Estonian: “Dijon”
  • Extremaduran: “Dijon”
  • Faroese: “Dijon”
  • Finnish: “Dijon”
  • French: “cité des ducs de Bourgogne”
  • French: “Dijon”
  • Friulian: “Dijon”
  • Galician: “Dijon”
  • Georgian: “დიჟონი”
  • German: “Dijon”
  • Greek: “Ντιζόν”
  • Gujarati: “ડીજોન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dijon”
  • Hausa: “Dijon”
  • Hebrew: “דיז’ון”
  • Hebrew: “דיזון”
  • Hindi: “दीजों”
  • Hungarian: “Dijon”
  • Icelandic: “Dijon”
  • Ido: “Dijon”
  • Indonesian: “Dijon”
  • Interlingua: “Dijon”
  • Interlingue: “Dijon”
  • Irish: “Dijon”
  • Italian: “Digione”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Dijon”
  • Japanese: “ディジョン”
  • Kabyle: “Dijon”
  • Kalaallisut: “Dijon”
  • Kannada: “ಡಿಜೋನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಡೀಝೋನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Дижон”
  • Komering: “Dijon”
  • Kongo: “Dijon”
  • Korean: “디종”
  • Kurdish: “Dijon”
  • Ladin: “Dijon”
  • Latin: “Divio”
  • Latin: “Diviodunum”
  • Latvian: “Dižona”
  • Ligurian: “Dijon”
  • Limburgan: “Dijon”
  • Lingala: “Dijon”
  • Lithuanian: “Dižonas”
  • Lombard: “Digion”
  • Low German: “Dijon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dijon”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Dijon”
  • Macedonian: “Дижон”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Dijon”
  • Malagasy: “Dijon”
  • Malay: “Dijon”
  • Maltese: “Dijon”
  • Marathi: “दिजाँ”
  • Mazanderani: “دیژون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dijon”
  • Minangkabau: “Dijon”
  • Moksha: “Дижон”
  • Narom: “Dijon”
  • Neapolitan: “Dijon”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dijon”
  • Northern Luri: “دیژون”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dijon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dijon”
  • Norwegian: “Dijon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dijon”
  • Ossetian: “Дижон”
  • Paiwan: “lizuk a didjun”
  • Papiamento: “Dijon”
  • Persian: “دیژون”
  • Picard: “Dijon”
  • Piemontese: “Digion”
  • Polish: “Dijon”
  • Portuguese: “Dijon”
  • Prussian: “Dijon”
  • Quechua: “Dijon”
  • Romagnol: “Dijon”
  • Romanian: “Dijon”
  • Romansh: “Dijon”
  • Russian: “Dijon”
  • Russian: “Дижон (город)”
  • Russian: “Дижон (коммуна)”
  • Russian: “Дижон”
  • Sardinian: “Dijon”
  • Scots: “Dijon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dijon”
  • Serbian: “Dijon”
  • Serbian: “Дижон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dijon”
  • Sicilian: “Dijon”
  • Silesian: “Dijon”
  • Sinhala: “ඩිජොන්”
  • Slovak: “Dijon”
  • Slovenian: “Dijon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دیژون”
  • Spanish: “Dijon”
  • Swahili: “Dijon”
  • Swedish: “Dijon”
  • Swiss German: “Dijon”
  • Tajik: “Дижун”
  • Tamil: “டிஜான்”
  • Tatar: “Дижон”
  • Telugu: “డిజోన్”
  • Thai: “ดีฌง”
  • Tibetan: “དི་ཇཱོན།”
  • Turkish: “Dijon”
  • Twi: “Dijon”
  • Twi: “Diyon”
  • Ukrainian: “Діжон”
  • Urdu: “دیجون”
  • Uzbek: “Dijon”
  • Venetian: “Dijon”
  • Veps: “Dižon”
  • Vietnamese: “Dijon”
  • Vlaams: “Dijon”
  • Volapük: “Dijon”
  • Walloon: “Dijon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dijon”
  • Welsh: “Dijon”
  • Western Armenian: “Տիժոն”
  • Western Frisian: “Dijon”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈیجون”
  • Wolof: “Dijon”
  • Wu Chinese: “第戎”
  • Yue Chinese: “第戎”
  • Zeeuws: “Dijon”
  • Zulu: “i-Dijon”
  • “Digiòṅ”
  • “Dijon”

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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 “Dijon”. Photo: François de Dijon, CC BY-SA 3.0.