Lille
Lille is the core of one of the largest metropolitan agglomerations in France. It has a large and handsome historic centre with beautiful, Flemish-influenced architecture.
- City with 237,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 20 metres (66 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code LIL
- Description: city and commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France, Northern France
- Postal codes5900059160592605977759800
- Also known as“Lile”“Rijsel”“Rysel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gare de Lille Europe and Gare de Lille Flandres.
Gare de Lille Europe
Railway station
Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.Gare de Lille Flandres
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Madeleine and Lambersart.
Lille
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Latitude
50.6366° or 50° 38′ 12″ north
Longitude
3.0635° or 3° 3′ 49″ east
UN/LOCODE
FR LLE
Open location code
9F25J3P7+JC
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lille” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lille”
- Afrikaans: “Rysel”
- Albanian: “Lille”
- Amharic: “ሊል”
- Arabic: “ليل”
- Aragonese: “Lille”
- Armenian: “Լիլ”
- Arpitan: “Lila”
- Asturian: “Lille”
- Aymara: “Lille”
- Azerbaijani: “Lil”
- Azerbaijani: “Lill”
- Balinese: “Lille”
- Bambara: “Lille”
- Basque: “Lille”
- Basque: “Rijsel”
- Bavarian: “Lille”
- Belarusian: “Ліль”
- Bengali: “লিল”
- Breton: “Lille / Rysel”
- Breton: “Lille”
- Bulgarian: “Лил”
- Burmese: “လီးလ်”
- Cajun French: “Lille”
- Catalan: “Lilla”
- Cebuano: “Lille”
- Central Kurdish: “لیل”
- Chechen: “Лилль”
- Chinese: “里尔”
- Chinese: “里耳”
- Chuvash: “Лилль”
- Corsican: “Lilla”
- Croatian: “Lille”
- Czech: “Lille”
- Dagbani: “Lille”
- Danish: “Lille”
- Dimli (individual language): “Lille”
- Dutch: “Lile”
- Dutch: “Lille”
- Dutch: “Rijsel”
- Dutch: “Rijssel”
- Dutch: “Rysel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليل”
- Esperanto: “Lille”
- Esperanto: “Lillo”
- Esperanto: “Lilo”
- Esperanto: “Rijsel”
- Estonian: “Lille”
- Extremaduran: “Lille”
- Faroese: “Lille”
- Fijian: “Lille”
- Finnish: “Lille”
- French: “Lile”
- French: “Lille”
- French: “Rijsel”
- French: “Rysel”
- Friulian: “Lille”
- Galician: “Lille”
- Georgian: “ლილი”
- German: “Lille”
- German: “Rijsel”
- Gothic: “𐌻𐌹𐌻𐌻𐌴”
- Greek: “Λιλ”
- Greek: “Λίλλη”
- Gujarati: “લીલી”
- Haitian: “Lil”
- Hakka Chinese: “Lille”
- Hausa: “Birnin Lille”
- Hausa: “Lille”
- Hebrew: “ליל”
- Hindi: “लील”
- Hungarian: “Lille”
- Icelandic: “Lille”
- Ido: “Lille”
- Indonesian: “Lille”
- Interlingua: “Lille”
- Interlingue: “Lille”
- Irish: “Lille”
- Italian: “Lilla”
- Italian: “Lille”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Lille”
- Japanese: “リール”
- Javanese: “Lille”
- Jèrriais: “Lille”
- Kabyle: “Lille”
- Kalaallisut: “Lille”
- Kannada: “ಲಿಲ್”
- Kannada: “ಲೀಲ್”
- Kazakh: “Лилль”
- Kirghiz: “Лилль”
- Kongo: “Lille”
- Korean: “릴”
- Kurdish: “Lille”
- Ladin: “Lille”
- Ladino: “Lila”
- Latin: “Insula”
- Latin: “Insulae”
- Latvian: “Lille”
- Ligurian: “Lille”
- Limburgan: “Lille”
- Lingala: “Lille”
- Lithuanian: “Lilis”
- Lojban: “lil.”
- Lombard: “Lilla”
- Low German: “Lille”
- Luxembourgish: “Lille”
- Macedonian: “Лил”
- Mainfränkisch: “Lille”
- Malagasy: “Lille”
- Malay: “Lille”
- Maltese: “Lille”
- Manx: “Lile”
- Manx: “Lille”
- Manx: “Rijsel”
- Manx: “Rysel”
- Marathi: “लील”
- Mazanderani: “لیل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lille”
- Minangkabau: “Lille”
- Mingrelian: “ლილი”
- Mongolian: “Лиль”
- Neapolitan: “Lille”
- Nepali: “लिल्ले”
- Northern Frisian: “Lille”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lille”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lille”
- Norwegian: “Lille”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lilla”
- Ossetian: “Лилль”
- Panjabi: “ਲੀਲ”
- Papiamento: “Lille”
- Persian: “لیل”
- Picard: “Lile”
- Piemontese: “Lille”
- Polish: “Lille”
- Pontic: “Λιλ”
- Portuguese: “Lila”
- Portuguese: “Lile”
- Portuguese: “Lille”
- Portuguese: “Rijsel”
- Portuguese: “Rysel”
- Prussian: “Lille”
- Quechua: “Lille”
- Romagnol: “Lille”
- Romanian: “Lille”
- Romansh: “Lille”
- Russian: “Лилль”
- Sardinian: “Lilla”
- Sardinian: “Lille”
- Saterfriesisch: “Lille”
- Scots: “Lille”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lille”
- Serbian: “Lille”
- Serbian: “Лил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lille”
- Sicilian: “Lille”
- Silesian: “Lille”
- Sinhala: “ලිලේ”
- Slovak: “Lille”
- Slovenian: “Lille”
- Somali: “Lille”
- South Azerbaijani: “لیل”
- Spanish: “Lila”
- Spanish: “Lille”
- Spanish: “Rijsel”
- Swahili: “Lille”
- Swedish: “Lille”
- Swiss German: “Lille”
- Tagalog: “Lille”
- Talysh: “Lill”
- Tamil: “லீல்”
- Tatar: “Лилль”
- Telugu: “లీల్”
- Thai: “ลีล”
- Tok Pisin: “Lille”
- Tumbuka: “Lille”
- Turkish: “Lille”
- Twi: “Lille”
- Uighur: “Lil”
- Ukrainian: “Лілль”
- Upper Sorbian: “Lille”
- Urdu: “لیل”
- Uzbek: “Lill”
- Venetian: “Lille”
- Vietnamese: “Lille”
- Vlaams: “Rysel”
- Volapük: “Lille”
- Walloon: “Lîle”
- Walloon: “Lille”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lille”
- Welsh: “Lille”
- Western Frisian: “Lille”
- Western Frisian: “Risel”
- Western Panjabi: “للی”
- Wolof: “Lille”
- Wu Chinese: “里尔”
- Yiddish: “ליל”
- Yoruba: “Lille”
- Yue Chinese: “里爾”
- Zeeuws: “Rijsel”
- Zulu: “Lille”
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