Hauts-de-France
North
Arrondissement of Lille

Lille

Lille is the core of one of the largest metropolitan agglomerations in . It has a large and handsome historic centre with beautiful, Flemish-influenced architecture.
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  • Type: City with 237,000 residents
  • Description: city and commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France, Northern France
  • Also known as: “Lile”, “Rijsel”, and “Rysel”
  • Postal codes: 59000, 59160, 59260, 59777, and 59800

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gare de Lille Europe and Gare de Lille Flandres.

Railway station
Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.
Lille–Europe station is a railway station in Lille, France, on the LGV Nord high-speed railway. The station is primarily used for international Eurostar and long-distance SNCF TGV services, although some high-speed regional trains also call at the station.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Lille-Flandres station is the main railway station of Lille, capital of French Flanders. It is a terminus for Intercity and regional trains. It opened in 1842 as the Gare de Lille, but was renamed in 1993 when Lille Europe station opened.

Museum
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a municipal museum dedicated to fine arts, modern art, and antiquities located in Lille. It is one of the largest art museums in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Madeleine and Lambersart.

Town
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in northern . It is a suburb of the city of Lille, bordering it on its north side.

Town
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is a commune in the department in northern . This commune is located in the Métropole Européenne de Lille, and is a suburb of the city of Lille, bordering it on its northwest side. Inhabitants of the town are called Lambersartois.

Town
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is a commune in the department in northern . It is a suburb of the city of Lille, and is adjacent to it on the northeast. The name means mount in the Barœul, the city is built on a slight hill; the Barœul was a former territory.

Lille

Latitude
50.6366° or 50° 38′ 12″ north
Longitude
3.0635° or 3° 3′ 49″ east
Population
237,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
LIL
United Nations Location Code
FR LLE
Open location code
9F25J3P7+JC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26686577
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2998324
Wiki­data ID
Q648
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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: “Lille”
  • Chinese: “里尔”
  • Chinese: “里爾”
  • Chinese: “里耳”
  • Chuvash: “Лилль”
  • Corsican: “Lilla”
  • Croatian: “Lille”
  • Czech: “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”
  • Kabyle: “Lille”
  • Kalaallisut: “Lille”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಲ್”
  • 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: “Lille”
  • Marathi: “लील”
  • Mazanderani: “لیل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lille”
  • Minangkabau: “Lille”
  • Mingrelian: “ლილი”
  • Narom: “Lille”
  • 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “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”
  • “Lille”

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