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Liège

Liège

Liège is the largest city of . This industrial city is actually quite green, with wide boulevards, an interesting, if a bit disorderly, mix of architecture from different periods, much greenery and picturesque riverbanks and hillsides.
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  • Type: City with 197,000 residents
  • Description: city in Wallonia, Belgium
  • Also known as: “La cité ardente”, “Lîdje”, “Lige”, “Luik”, “Lüttich”, and “Luuk”
  • Postal codes: 4000, 4020, and 4030
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Opéra Royal de Wallonie and Prince-Bishops‘ Palace.

Theater building
Photo: Kleon3, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an opera house located on the Place de l'Opéra, in Liège, Belgium. Together with and the Vlaamse Opera, the Opéra royal, as it is colloquially known, is one of the three major opera houses in Belgium.

Castle
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Palace of the Prince-Bishops is a historic building situated on the in the centre of Liège, . It was the residence of former Prince-Bishops of Liège and once faced the monumental Cathedral of St.

Railway station
Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Herstal and Saint-Nicolas.

Town
Photo: Flamenc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, formerly known as Heristal, or Héristal, is a municipality and city of located in the , Belgium. It lies along the river.

Town
Photo: Peter Van den Bossche, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a municipality of located ine the , . It is effectively a part of the greater Liège conurbation stretching west from Liège city centre towards .

Town
Photo: flamenc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality and city of located in the , . The municipality consists of the following districts: , , , and .

Liège

Latitude
50.6451° or 50° 38′ 42″ north
Longitude
5.5736° or 5° 34′ 25″ east
Population
197,000
Elevation
66 metres (217 feet)
IATA airport code
LGG
United Nations Location Code
BE LGG
Open location code
9F27JHWF+2C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1689207163
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2792413
Wiki­data ID
Q3992
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Liège” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Luik”
  • Albanian: “Liège”
  • Arabic: “لياج”
  • Arabic: “لييج”
  • Aragonese: “Lidje”
  • Armenian: “Լիեժ”
  • Asturian: “Lidje”
  • Asturian: “Liège”
  • Asturian: “Liex”
  • Asturian: “Liexa”
  • Asturian: “Luik”
  • Asturian: “Lüttich”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lyej”
  • Balinese: “Liège”
  • Bashkir: “Льеж”
  • Basque: “Lieja”
  • Belarusian: “Льеж”
  • Bengali: “লিয়েজ”
  • Breton: “Liège”
  • Bulgarian: “Лиеж”
  • Burmese: “လိဂျမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Lieja”
  • Cebuano: “Liège”
  • Chavacano: “Liège”
  • Chechen: “Льеж”
  • Chinese: “列日”
  • Chuvash: “Льеж”
  • Corsican: “Lieghji”
  • Corsican: “Liegi”
  • Croatian: “Liège”
  • Czech: “Lutych”
  • Danish: “Liège”
  • Dutch: “Liège”
  • Dutch: “Luik”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لييج”
  • Esperanto: “Lieĝo”
  • Estonian: “Liège”
  • Finnish: “Liege”
  • Finnish: “Liège”
  • French: “Athènes du Nord”
  • French: “Cité Ardente”
  • French: “Cité Mosane”
  • French: “Fille de l’Église romaine”
  • French: “La fille ainée de Rome”
  • French: “La ville aux 100 clochers”
  • French: “Liège”
  • Galician: “Liège”
  • Galician: “Liexa”
  • Galician: “Luik”
  • Georgian: “ლიეჟი”
  • German: “Lîdje”
  • German: “Liége”
  • German: “Liège”
  • German: “Luik”
  • German: “Lüttich”
  • Greek: “Λιέγη”
  • Gujarati: “લીજ”
  • Hebrew: “לייז‘”
  • Hebrew: “לייז’”
  • Hebrew: “לייז”
  • Hindi: “लीज”
  • Hungarian: “Liège”
  • Icelandic: “Liège”
  • Ido: “Liège”
  • Inari Sami: “Liège”
  • Indonesian: “Liège”
  • Interlingue: “Liège”
  • Irish: “Liège”
  • Italian: “Liegi”
  • Japanese: “リエージュ”
  • Kannada: “ಲೀಜ್”
  • Kazakh: “Льеж”
  • Kirghiz: “Льеж”
  • Kölsch: “Lück (Stadt)”
  • Kölsch: “Lück”
  • Korean: “리에주”
  • Latin: “Legia”
  • Latin: “Leodicum”
  • Latin: “Leodii”
  • Latin: “Leodium”
  • Latvian: “Līdže”
  • Latvian: “Litiha”
  • Latvian: “Ljēža”
  • Latvian: “Luika”
  • Limburgan: “Luuk”
  • Lithuanian: “Lježas”
  • Lombard: “Liegi”
  • Low German: “Lüttich”
  • Luxembourgish: “Léck”
  • Luxembourgish: “Liège”
  • Macedonian: “Лиеж”
  • Malagasy: “Liège”
  • Malay: “Liège”
  • Maltese: “Liège”
  • Maltese: “Luik”
  • Marathi: “लीज”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lüttich”
  • Northern Sami: “Liège”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Liège”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Liège”
  • Norwegian: “Liège”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lièja”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lēodic”
  • Ossetian: “Льеж”
  • Persian: “لیژ”
  • Picard: “Lidje”
  • Piemontese: “Liège”
  • Polish: “Liège”
  • Portuguese: “Liège”
  • Portuguese: “Lieja”
  • Romanian: “Liège”
  • Russian: “Льеж”
  • Russian: “Люттих”
  • Scots: “Liège”
  • Serbian: “Лијеж”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Liège”
  • Sicilian: “Sùguru”
  • Silesian: “Liège”
  • Sinhala: “ලේයිගේ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Liège”
  • Slovak: “Liège”
  • Slovenian: “Liège”
  • Spanish: “Lieja”
  • Spanish: “Luik”
  • Swahili: “Liège”
  • Swedish: “Lidje”
  • Swedish: “Liège”
  • Swedish: “Luik”
  • Swedish: “Lüttich”
  • Swiss German: “Lüttich”
  • Tamil: “லியேஜ்”
  • Tatar: “Льеж”
  • Telugu: “లీజ్”
  • Thai: “ลีแยฌ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Lüttich”
  • Turkish: “Athènes du Nord”
  • Turkish: “Liege”
  • Turkish: “Liège”
  • Turkish: “Luik”
  • Turkish: “Lüttich”
  • Ukrainian: “Льєж”
  • Urdu: “لیئج”
  • Urdu: “لییجی”
  • Uzbek: “Leyk”
  • Uzbek: “Lyej”
  • Venetian: “Liege”
  • Veps: “L’jež”
  • Veps: “Ljež”
  • Vietnamese: “Liège”
  • Vlaams: “Luuk”
  • Volapük: “Liège”
  • Walloon: “li Bolante Cité”
  • Walloon: “Lidje”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Liège”
  • Welsh: “Liege”
  • Welsh: “Liège”
  • Welsh: “Luik”
  • Welsh: “Lüttich”
  • Western Armenian: “Լիեժ”
  • Western Frisian: “Luik”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیئژ”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیج”
  • Wu Chinese: “列日”
  • Yiddish: “ליעזש”
  • Yue Chinese: “列日”
  • Zeeuws: “Luuk (gemeênte)”
  • Zeeuws: “Luuk”
  • “Liège”

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