Forbach
Forbach is in Lorraine on the German border approximately 15 minutes from the centre of Saarbrücken, Germany.
- Type: Town with 21,100 residents
- Description: commune in Moselle, France
- Also known as: “Форбаш”
- Postal code: 57600
- Neighbors: Saarbrücken
Places of Interest
Highlights: Forbach station and Le Carreau.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stiring-Wendel and Œting.
Petite-Rosselle
Village
Forbach
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement de Forbach-Boulay-Moselle, Moselle, Lorraine, Grand Est, France, Europe
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Latitude
49.1863° or 49° 11′ 11″ north
Longitude
6.8959° or 6° 53′ 45″ east
Population
21,100
Elevation
208 metres (682 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FR FOR
Open location code
8FX85VPW+G8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Forbach” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Forbach”
- Arabic: “فورباخ”
- Aragonese: “Forbach”
- Armenian: “Ֆորբակ”
- Arpitan: “Forbach”
- Asturian: “Forbach”
- Bambara: “Forbach”
- Basque: “Forbach”
- Bavarian: “Forbach”
- Belarusian: “Фарбак”
- Breton: “Forbach”
- Breton: “Fuerboch”
- Bulgarian: “Форбак”
- Cajun French: “Forbach”
- Catalan: “Forbach”
- Cebuano: “Forbach”
- Chechen: “ФогӀбак”
- Chinese: “福尔巴克”
- Chinese: “福爾巴克”
- Corsican: “Forbach”
- Croatian: “Forbach”
- Czech: “Forbach”
- Danish: “Forbach”
- Dimli (individual language): “Forbach”
- Dutch: “Forbach”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فورباخ”
- Esperanto: “Forbach”
- Estonian: “Forbach”
- Faroese: “Forbach”
- Finnish: “Forbach”
- French: “Forbach”
- Friulian: “Forbach”
- Galician: “Forbach”
- German: “Forbach”
- Greek: “Φορμπάκ”
- Hebrew: “פורבק”
- Hungarian: “Forbach”
- Icelandic: “Forbach”
- Ido: “Forbach”
- Indonesian: “Forbach”
- Interlingua: “Forbach”
- Interlingue: “Forbach”
- Irish: “Forbach”
- Italian: “Forbach”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Forbach”
- Japanese: “フォルバック”
- Jèrriais: “Forbach”
- Kabyle: “Forbach”
- Kalaallisut: “Forbach”
- Kazakh: “Форбак”
- Kongo: “Forbach”
- Korean: “포르바크”
- Kurdish: “Forbach”
- Ladin: “Forbach”
- Latin: “Forbach”
- Latin: “Forbacum”
- Latvian: “Forbach”
- Ligurian: “Forbach”
- Limburgan: “Forbach”
- Lithuanian: “Forbach”
- Low German: “Forbach”
- Luxembourgish: “Forbach”
- Mainfränkisch: “Forbach”
- Malagasy: “Forbach”
- Malay: “Forbach”
- Mazanderani: “فوربک”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Forbach”
- Minangkabau: “Forbach”
- Neapolitan: “Forbach”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Forbach”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Forbach”
- Norwegian: “Forbach”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Forbach”
- Papiamento: “Forbach”
- Persian: “فوربک”
- Pfaelzisch: “Forbach”
- Picard: “Forbach”
- Piemontese: “Forbach”
- Polish: “Forbach”
- Portuguese: “Forbach”
- Prussian: “Forbach”
- Romagnol: “Forbach”
- Romanian: “Forbach”
- Romansh: “Forbach”
- Russian: “Форбак”
- Russian: “Форбах”
- Sardinian: “Forbach”
- Scots: “Forbach”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Forbach”
- Serbian: “Forbach”
- Serbian: “Форбах”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Forbach”
- Sicilian: “Forbach”
- Slovak: “Forbach”
- Slovenian: “Forbach, Moselle”
- Slovenian: “Forbach”
- Spanish: “Forbach”
- Swahili: “Forbach”
- Swedish: “Forbach”
- Swiss German: “Forbach”
- Swiss German: “Fuerboch”
- Tatar: “Форбак”
- Turkish: “Forbach”
- Ukrainian: “Форбак”
- Urdu: “فورباخ”
- Uzbek: “Forbach”
- Venetian: “Forbach”
- Vietnamese: “Forbach, Moselle”
- Vietnamese: “Forbach”
- Vlaams: “Forbach”
- Volapük: “Forbach”
- Walloon: “Forbach”
- Waray (Philippines): “Forbach”
- Welsh: “Forbach”
- Wolof: “Forbach”
- Zulu: “Forbach”
- “Forbach”
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