Greater Lyon

Greater Lyon is the region that surrounds the city of in south-eastern , consisting of the departments of Ain, Loire, and Rhône plus the Lyon Metropolis, a "territorial collectivity" with the same powers as a department.
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is the capital of the administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. A city of half a million, alone is the country's third-largest city, but its metropolitan area is only second in population to .

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is a city in the central eastern part of , 60 km southwest of Lyon, in the Rhône-Alpes region. is the prefecture of the Loire Department. It is in the Massif Central.

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is a commune in the department, central . It is located 90 km northwest of on the river . It has an important Museum, the Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie Joseph-Déchelette, with many Egyptian artifacts.

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is a town of 36,000 people in Greater Lyon. It is known for being the main city of the Beaujolais region.

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is a commune in the department in the region in Eastern . A medieval walled town perched on a small hill that overlooks the plain of the river , it is located 30 km northeast of , historically in the neighbouring Rhône department.

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is a town of 9,600 people in Rhône-Alpes, just outside of . It serves as a bedroom community for Geneva, and as a tourist destination owing to its thermal baths, golf course and casino.

Greater Lyon

Latitude of center
45.8913° or 45° 53′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
4.5304° or 4° 31′ 49″ east
Population
1,740,000
Elevation
370 metres (1,214 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2987410
Wiki­data ID
Q46130
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Greater Lyon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rhône”
  • Albanian: “Rhône”
  • Arabic: “رون”
  • Aragonese: “Roine”
  • Armenian: “Ռոն”
  • Arpitan: “Rôno”
  • Asturian: “Ródanu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rona”
  • Balinese: “Rhône (departemén)”
  • Balinese: “Rhône”
  • Basque: “Rodano”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Рона”
  • Belarusian: “Рона (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Рона”
  • Bengali: “রোন্”
  • Breton: “Rhône”
  • Breton: “Ron”
  • Bulgarian: “Рон”
  • Catalan: “Roina”
  • Catalan: “Roine”
  • Cebuano: “Rhône”
  • Cebuano: “Rodano”
  • Cebuano: “Ródano”
  • Chechen: “ГӀона”
  • Chechen: “Рона”
  • Chinese: “Rhône”
  • Chinese: “罗讷省”
  • Chinese: “羅訥省”
  • Chinese: “隆河省”
  • Chuvash: “Рона”
  • Czech: “Rhône”
  • Dagbani: “Rhone”
  • Danish: “Rhône”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Rhône”
  • Dutch: “Rhone (departement)”
  • Dutch: “Rhône”
  • Esperanto: “Rhône”
  • Esperanto: “Rodano”
  • Estonian: “Rhone departemang”
  • Estonian: “Rhône departemang”
  • Estonian: “Rhone’i departemang”
  • Estonian: “Rhône’i departemang”
  • Finnish: “Rhône”
  • French: “69D”
  • French: “Département du Rhône”
  • French: “nouveau Rhône”
  • French: “Nouveau-Rhône”
  • French: “Rhône”
  • Galician: “Ródano”
  • Georgian: “რონა”
  • Georgian: “რონის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Département Rhône”
  • German: “FR-69”
  • German: “Rhône und Groß-Lyon”
  • German: “Rhône”
  • Greek: “Νομός του Ρον”
  • Greek: “Νουβώ Ρον”
  • Greek: “Ρον”
  • Gujarati: “રૉન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Rhône-sén”
  • Hebrew: “רון”
  • Hindi: “रोन (विभाग)”
  • Hindi: “रोन”
  • Hungarian: “Rhône”
  • Indonesian: “Rhône”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Rhone”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Rhone”
  • Irish: “Rhône”
  • Italian: “Rodano”
  • Japanese: “ローヌ県”
  • Kabyle: “Rhône”
  • Kannada: “ರೋನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Рона”
  • Kongo: “Rhône”
  • Korean: “론주”
  • Ladin: “Rhône”
  • Ladino: “Rhône”
  • Latin: “Rhodanus”
  • Latvian: “Rona”
  • Limburgan: “Rhône”
  • Lithuanian: “Rona”
  • Lombard: “Rhône”
  • Lombard: “Roden”
  • Low German: “Rhône”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Rhône”
  • Macedonian: “Рона”
  • Malagasy: “Rhône”
  • Malay: “Rhône”
  • Marathi: “रोन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rhône”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rhône (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rhône”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rhône”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Departementet Rhône”
  • Norwegian: “Rhône”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Departament de Ròse”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ròse”
  • Ossetian: “Ронæ”
  • Pampanga: “Rhône”
  • Persian: “رون”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Ròno”
  • Piemontese: “Ròno”
  • Polish: “Rodan”
  • Portuguese: “Ródano”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Rhône”
  • Romanian: “Rhône”
  • Russian: “Рона”
  • Scots: “Rhône”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rhône”
  • Serbian: “Департман Рона у Француској”
  • Serbian: “Департман Рона”
  • Serbian: “Рона”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rhône”
  • Sinhala: “රෝනේ”
  • Slovak: “Rhône”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Rhône”
  • Slovenian: “Rhône”
  • Spanish: “Rodano”
  • Spanish: “Ródano”
  • Swahili: “Rhône”
  • Swedish: “Rhône”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Рона”
  • Tamil: “ரஹானே”
  • Telugu: “రోన్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโรน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Rhône”
  • Turkish: “Rhône, Fransa”
  • Turkish: “Rhône”
  • Ukrainian: “Рона”
  • Urdu: “رون”
  • Venetian: “Rodano”
  • Vietnamese: “Rhône”
  • Vlaams: “Rhône”
  • Volapük: “Rhône”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rhône”
  • Welsh: “Rhône”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع رہون”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗讷省”
  • Wu Chinese: “豪納省”
  • Yue Chinese: “隆河省”
  • “Rhone”
  • “Rhône”

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