Lausanne
Lausanne, the capital of the Swiss canton of Vaud, is a city of 140,000 people that sits at the northernmost point of Lake Geneva. It is the public transport hub of Vaud, and a gateway to the alpine Canton of the Valais, home to some of the best-known ski slopes in the world.
- City with 134,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 501 metres (1,644 feet)
- Description: capital city of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
- Also known as“CH5586”“City of Lausanne”“Lausanne VD”“Olympic Capital”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Olympic Museum and Stade Olympique de la Pontaise.
Centre International de Recherches sur l’Anarchisme
Library
CIRA or the International Center for Research…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pully and Prilly.
Renens
Town
Photo: Vkeller, Public domain.Lausanne
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Latitude
46.5218° or 46° 31′ 19″ north
Longitude
6.6327° or 6° 37′ 58″ east
Open location code
8FR8GJCM+P3
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lausanne” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lausanne”
- Albanian: “Lozana”
- Amharic: “ሎዛን”
- Arabic: “لوزان”
- Aragonese: “Lausana”
- Armenian: “Լոզան”
- Arpitan: “Losena”
- Asturian: “Lausana”
- Azerbaijani: “Lozanna”
- Balinese: “Lausanne”
- Bambara: “Lausanne”
- Basque: “Lausana”
- Belarusian: “Горад Лазана”
- Belarusian: “Лазана”
- Belarusian: “Лязана”
- Bengali: “লোজান”
- Bosnian: “Lausanne”
- Breton: “Lausanne”
- Bulgarian: “Лозана”
- Catalan: “Lausana”
- Cebuano: “Lausanne”
- Central Kurdish: “لۆزان”
- Chavacano: “Lausanne”
- Chechen: “Лозанна”
- Chinese: “洛桑”
- Chuvash: “Лозанна”
- Croatian: “Lausanne”
- Czech: “Lausanne”
- Danish: “Lausanne VD”
- Danish: “Lausanne”
- Dutch: “Lausanne”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لوزان”
- Esperanto: “Laŭzano”
- Esperanto: “Olimpika Ĉefurbo”
- Estonian: “Lausanne”
- Faroese: “Lausanne”
- Fijian: “Losani”
- Finnish: “Lausanne”
- French: “capitale du crime et de l’endettement”
- French: “Capitale olympique”
- French: “Lausangrad”
- French: “Lausanne VD”
- French: “Lausanne”
- French: “Lausanngeles”
- French: “Lausanngrad”
- French: “Ville de Lausanne”
- Galician: “capital olímpica”
- Galician: “Lausana”
- Galician: “Lausanne”
- Georgian: “ლოზანა”
- German: “Lausanne”
- German: “olympische Hauptstadt”
- Greek: “Λωζάνη”
- Gujarati: “લોઝાન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lausanne”
- Hebrew: “לוזאן”
- Hindi: “लोज़ान”
- Hungarian: “Lausanne”
- Icelandic: “Lausanne”
- Ido: “Lausanne”
- Indonesian: “Lausanne”
- Interlingua: “Lausanna”
- Interlingue: “Lausanne”
- Irish: “Lausanne”
- Italian: “Losanna”
- Japanese: “ローザンヌ”
- Kabyle: “Luzan”
- Kannada: “ಒಲಿಂಪಿಕ್ ಕ್ಯಾಪಿಟಲ್”
- Kannada: “ಲವ್ಸನ್ನೆ”
- Kannada: “ಲಾಸನ್ನೆ ವಿಡಿ”
- Kannada: “ಲೌಸಾನ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Lozanna”
- Kashubian: “Lozanna”
- Kazakh: “Лозанна”
- Kirghiz: “Лозанн шаары”
- Kirghiz: “Лозанна шаары”
- Korean: “로잔”
- Kotava: “Lausanne”
- Kurdish: “Lozan”
- Latin: “Lausanna”
- Latin: “Lausonium”
- Latvian: “Lozanna”
- Limburgan: “Lausanne (stad)”
- Limburgan: “Lausanne”
- Lithuanian: “Lozana”
- Lombard: “Lusana”
- Low German: “Lausanne”
- Luxembourgish: “Lausanne”
- Macedonian: “Лозана”
- Malagasy: “Lausanne”
- Malay: “Lausanne”
- Maltese: “Lausanne”
- Manx: “Lausanne”
- Marathi: “लोझान”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lausanne”
- Mingrelian: “ლოზანა”
- Mongolian: “Лозанн”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لوزان”
- Nauru: “Lausanne”
- Neapolitan: “Losanna”
- Nepali: “लाउसान्ने”
- Northern Frisian: “Lausanne”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lausanne”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lausanne”
- Norwegian: “Lausanne”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lausana”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lausanne”
- Ossetian: “Лозаннæ”
- Persian: “لوزان”
- Piemontese: “Losan-na”
- Polish: “Lozanna”
- Portuguese: “Lausana”
- Portuguese: “Lausanne”
- Quechua: “Lausanne”
- Romanian: “Lausanne”
- Romansh: “Losanna”
- Russian: “Лозанна”
- Scots: “Lausanne”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lausanne”
- Serbian: “Лозана”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lausanne”
- Sicilian: “Losanna”
- Silesian: “Lausanne”
- Sinhala: “ලොසාන්”
- Slovak: “Lausanne”
- Slovenian: “Lausanne”
- Slovenian: “Lozana”
- South Azerbaijani: “لوزان”
- Spanish: “Lausana”
- Swahili: “Lausanne”
- Swedish: “Lausanne”
- Swiss German: “Lausanne”
- Tajik: “Лозанна”
- Talysh: “Lozanna”
- Tamil: “லோசான்”
- Tatar: “Лозанна”
- Telugu: “లవ్ సాన్”
- Thai: “โลซาน”
- Turkish: “Lausanne”
- Turkish: “Lozan”
- Ukrainian: “Лозанна”
- Upper Sorbian: “Lausanne”
- Urdu: “لوزان”
- Uzbek: “Lozanna”
- Venetian: “Łoxana”
- Vietnamese: “Lausanne”
- Volapük: “Lausanne”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lausanne”
- Welsh: “Lausanne VD”
- Welsh: “Lausanne”
- Western Panjabi: “لوزان”
- Wu Chinese: “洛桑”
- Yoruba: “Lausanne”
- Yue Chinese: “洛桑”
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