Western Switzerland
Vaud
Lausanne District

Lausanne

Lausanne, the capital of the 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.
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  • Type: City with 134,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “CH5586”, “City of Lausanne”, “Lausanne VD”, and “Olympic Capital”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Olympic Museum and Stade Olympique de la Pontaise.

Museum
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The in Lausanne, Switzerland houses permanent and temporary exhibits relating to sport and the Olympic movement. With more than 10,000 artifacts, the museum is the largest archive of Olympic Games memorabilia in the world and one of Lausanne's prime tourist site draws attracting more than 250,000 visitors each year.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Lausanne, Switzerland. The stadium holds 15,700 people and was opened in 1954. The stadium is used primarily for football matches.

Museum
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The is a late 19th-century building in Renaissance style in Lausanne, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pully and Prilly.

Town
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is a municipality in in the , located in the district of . It is one of the eastern suburbs of the city of Lausanne, located on the shores of and at the foot of the vineyards of on the road to and .

Town
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is a municipality in in the canton of , located in the district of . It is one of the western suburbs of the city of Lausanne.

Town
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is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, . It is located in the district of , and is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.

Lausanne

Latitude
46.5218° or 46° 31′ 19″ north
Longitude
6.6327° or 6° 37′ 58″ east
Population
134,000
Elevation
501 metres (1,644 feet)
Open location code
8FR8GJCM+P3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 35295150
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
7286283
Wiki­data ID
Q807
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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: “Lausanne”
  • 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 olympique”
  • 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: “लॉज़ेन”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Lausanne”
  • Turkish: “Lausanna”
  • Turkish: “Lausanne VD”
  • Turkish: “Lausanne”
  • Turkish: “Lausonium”
  • Turkish: “Losanna”
  • 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”
  • “Lausanne”

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