Foix
Foix is a medieval town at the foot of the Pyrenees in Ariège. It is surrounded by its castle which dominates the town. Perched on its rock, you cannot miss seeing it and, if you have a little time, visiting it.
- Type: Town with 9,470 residents
- Description: commune in Ariège, France
- Also known as: “Foa”, “Foish”, “Foix (stad)”, “Foix-sur-Ariège”, “Фуакс”, and “フォア”
- Postal code: 09000
Places of Interest
Highlights: Château de Foix and Foix station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vernajoul and Montgailhard.
Montgailhard
Village
Foix
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.9639° or 42° 57′ 50″ north
Longitude
1.6054° or 1° 36′ 19″ east
Population
9,470
Elevation
392 metres (1,286 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Foix” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Foix”
- Albanian: “Foix”
- Arabic: “فوا”
- Aragonese: “Foix”
- Armenian: “Ֆուա”
- Arpitan: “Foix”
- Asturian: “Foix”
- Azerbaijani: “Fua (şəhər)”
- Azerbaijani: “Fua”
- Bambara: “Foix”
- Basque: “Foix”
- Bavarian: “Foix”
- Belarusian: “Фуа”
- Breton: “Fois”
- Buginese: “Foix”
- Cajun French: “Foix”
- Catalan: “Foix”
- Cebuano: “Foix”
- Chechen: “Фуа”
- Chinese: “富瓦”
- Corsican: “Foix”
- Croatian: “Foix”
- Czech: “Foix”
- Danish: “Foix”
- Dutch: “Foix”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فوا”
- Esperanto: “Foix”
- Estonian: “Foix”
- Faroese: “Foix”
- Finnish: “Foix”
- French: “Foix”
- Friulian: “Foix”
- Galician: “Foix”
- German: “Foix”
- Greek: “Φουά”
- Hebrew: “פואה”
- Hungarian: “Foix”
- Icelandic: “Foix”
- Ido: “Foix”
- Indonesian: “Foix”
- Interlingua: “Foix”
- Interlingue: “Foix”
- Irish: “Foix”
- Italian: “Foix”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Foix”
- Japanese: “フォワ”
- Jèrriais: “Foix”
- Kabyle: “Foix”
- Kalaallisut: “Foix”
- Kongo: “Foix”
- Korean: “푸아”
- Ladin: “Foix”
- Latin: “Fuxium”
- Latvian: “Fuā”
- Ligurian: “Foix”
- Limburgan: “Foix”
- Lithuanian: “Fua”
- Low German: “Foix”
- Luxembourgish: “Foix”
- Macedonian: “Фоа”
- Mainfränkisch: “Foix”
- Malagasy: “Foix”
- Malay: “Foix”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Foix”
- Minangkabau: “Foix”
- Neapolitan: “Foix”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Foix”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Foix”
- Norwegian: “Foix”
- Novial: “Foix”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fois”
- Ossetian: “Фуа (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Фуа”
- Papiamento: “Foix”
- Persian: “فوآ”
- Picard: “Foix”
- Piemontese: “Foix”
- Polish: “Foix”
- Portuguese: “Foix”
- Prussian: “Foix”
- Romagnol: “Foix”
- Romanian: “Foix”
- Romansh: “Foix”
- Russian: “Фуа”
- Sardinian: “Foix”
- Scots: “Foix”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Foix”
- Serbian: “Foix”
- Serbian: “Фоа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Foix”
- Sicilian: “Foix”
- Slovak: “Foix”
- Slovenian: “Foix”
- Spanish: “Foix”
- Swahili: “Foix”
- Swedish: “Foix”
- Swiss German: “Foix”
- Tatar: “Фуа (город)”
- Tatar: “Фуа”
- Turkish: “Foix”
- Ukrainian: “Фуа”
- Urdu: “فوا”
- Venetian: “Foix”
- Vietnamese: “Foix”
- Vlaams: “Foix”
- Volapük: “Foix”
- Walloon: “Foix”
- Waray (Philippines): “Foix”
- Welsh: “Foix”
- Wolof: “Foix”
- Wu Chinese: “富瓦”
- Yue Chinese: “Foix”
- Zulu: “Foix”
- “Foix”
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