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Aisne
Arrondissement de Laon

Laon

Laon is a city in the Aisne département of , in northern . Laon has about 24,000 residents.
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  • Type: Town with 24,000 residents
  • Description: commune in Aisne, France
  • Postal codes: 02000 and 02000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Laon Cathedral and Laon station.

Church
Photo: PMRMaeyaert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Roman Catholic church located in Laon, , , . Built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, it is one of the most important and stylistically unified examples of early Gothic architecture.

Railway station
Photo: Spendeau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Laon is a railway station serving the town of Laon, department, northern . It was built in 1857 by Chemins de Fer du Nord. The station is served by regional trains to , , and .

Town hall
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clacy-et-Thierret.

Village
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
is a commune in the department, , northern . is situated 4 km southwest of Laon.

Laon

Latitude
49.5647° or 49° 33′ 53″ north
Longitude
3.6207° or 3° 37′ 15″ east
Population
24,000
Elevation
180 metres (591 feet)
IATA airport code
XLN
United Nations Location Code
FR LAO
Open location code
8FX5HJ7C+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 416128934
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3007477
Wiki­data ID
Q167141
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Laon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Laon”
  • Albanian: “Laon”
  • Arabic: “لان”
  • Arabic: “لاون”
  • Aragonese: “Laon”
  • Armenian: “Լան”
  • Arpitan: “Laon”
  • Asturian: “Laon”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lan”
  • Bambara: “Laon”
  • Basque: “Laon”
  • Bavarian: “Laon”
  • Belarusian: “Лан”
  • Belarusian: “Лаон”
  • Belarusian: “Лян”
  • Breton: “Laon”
  • Buginese: “Laon”
  • Bulgarian: “Лан”
  • Bulgarian: “Лаон”
  • Cajun French: “Laon”
  • Catalan: “Bibrax”
  • Catalan: “Laon”
  • Cebuano: “Laon”
  • Central Kurdish: “لاون”
  • Chechen: “Лан”
  • Chinese: “Laon”
  • Chinese: “拉昂”
  • Corsican: “Laon”
  • Croatian: “Laon”
  • Czech: “Laon”
  • Dagbani: “Laon”
  • Danish: “Laon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Laon”
  • Dutch: “Laon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاون”
  • Esperanto: “Laon”
  • Estonian: “Laon”
  • Faroese: “Laon”
  • Finnish: “Laon”
  • French: “Laon”
  • French: “Montagne couronnée”
  • Friulian: “Laon”
  • Galician: “Laon”
  • German: “Laon”
  • German: “Laudunum”
  • Greek: “Λαν”
  • Hebrew: “לאן”
  • Hebrew: “לון”
  • Hungarian: “Laon”
  • Icelandic: “Laon”
  • Ido: “Laon”
  • Indonesian: “Laon”
  • Interlingua: “Laon”
  • Interlingue: “Laon”
  • Irish: “Laon”
  • Italian: “Bibrax”
  • Italian: “Laon”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Laon”
  • Japanese: “ラン”
  • Kabyle: “Laon”
  • Kalaallisut: “Laon”
  • Kongo: “Laon”
  • Korean: “랑”
  • Kurdish: “Laon”
  • Ladin: “Laon”
  • Latin: “Laon”
  • Latin: “Laudunum”
  • Latvian: “Lāna”
  • Ligurian: “Laon”
  • Limburgan: “Laon”
  • Lithuanian: “Lanas”
  • Lombard: “Laon”
  • Low German: “Laon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Laon”
  • Macedonian: “Лан”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Laon”
  • Malagasy: “Laon”
  • Malay: “Laon”
  • Mazanderani: “لئون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Laon”
  • Minangkabau: “Laon”
  • Narom: “Laon”
  • Neapolitan: “Laon”
  • Northern Frisian: “Laon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Laon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laon”
  • Norwegian: “Laon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Laon”
  • Ossetian: “Лан (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Лан”
  • Pampanga: “Laon”
  • Papiamento: “Laon”
  • Persian: “لئون”
  • Persian: “لااون”
  • Persian: “لان”
  • Picard: “Laon”
  • Piemontese: “Laon”
  • Polish: “Laon”
  • Portuguese: “Laon”
  • Prussian: “Laon”
  • Romagnol: “Laon”
  • Romanian: “Laon”
  • Romansh: “Laon”
  • Russian: “Лан”
  • Russian: “Лана”
  • Russian: “Лаон”
  • Russian: “Лаудун”
  • Sardinian: “Laon”
  • Scots: “Laon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Laon”
  • Serbian: “Laon”
  • Serbian: “Лаон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Laon”
  • Sicilian: “Laon”
  • Slovak: “Laon”
  • Slovenian: “Laon”
  • Spanish: “Laon”
  • Swahili: “Laon”
  • Swedish: “Laon”
  • Swiss German: “Laon”
  • Tagalog: “Laon, Aisne”
  • Tagalog: “Laon”
  • Thai: “Laon”
  • Thai: “ล็อง”
  • Thai: “ลาอง”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Laon”
  • Turkish: “Laon”
  • Ukrainian: “Лан”
  • Urdu: “لاون”
  • Uzbek: “Laon”
  • Venetian: “Laon”
  • Vietnamese: “Laon”
  • Vlaams: “Laon”
  • Volapük: “Laon”
  • Walloon: “Laon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Laon, Aisne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Laon”
  • Welsh: “Laon”
  • Western Frisian: “Laon”
  • Wolof: “Laon”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉昂”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉昂”
  • Zeeuws: “Laon”
  • Zulu: “Laon”
  • “Laon”

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