Limousin
Limousin is a region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in southwestern France. Because it is off the major transportation routes and has few significant tourist sites, Limousin has attracted little tourism Tourism is developing, however, because of two major interests:…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Limoges and Brive-la-Gaillarde.
Limoges
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Limoges is a historic city in the Limousin region of France. A City of Art and History since 2008, the city has no shortage of must-see attractions. If you didn't arrive by train, you should still visit the Gare des Bénédictins, considered by many to be the city's flagship and one of its major landmarks.
Brive-la-Gaillarde
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Brive-la-Gaillarde, commonly known as simply Brive, is a commune of France. It is a sub-prefecture and the largest city of the Corrèze department. It has around 46,000 inhabitants, while the population of the agglomeration was 75,579 in 2019.
Gimel-les-Cascades
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Gimel-les-Cascades is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.
Limousin
- Type: State
- Description: geographic region and former administrative region in France
- Neighbors: Auvergne and Centre-Val de Loire
- Category: region of France
- Location: Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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Latitude of center
45.7175° or 45° 43′ 3″ northLongitude of center
1.7407° or 1° 44′ 27″ eastOpenStreetMap ID
node 1251610243Wikidata ID
Q1190
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Limousin” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Limousin”
- Albanian: “Limousin”
- Albanian: “Limuzin”
- Arabic: “ليموزان”
- Aragonese: “Lemosín”
- Armenian: “Լիմուզան”
- Armenian: “Լիմուզեն”
- Arpitan: “Limosin”
- Asturian: “Llemosín”
- Aymara: “Limousin suyu”
- Azerbaijani: “Limuzen”
- Azerbaijani: “Limuzin”
- Basque: “Limousin”
- Belarusian: “Лімузен (рэгіён)”
- Belarusian: “Лімузен”
- Belarusian: “Лімузэн”
- Belarusian: “рэгіён Лімузен”
- Bosnian: “Limousin”
- Breton: “Limousin”
- Bulgarian: “Лимузен”
- Catalan: “Llemosí”
- Cebuano: “Limousin”
- Chechen: “Лимузен”
- Chinese: “Limousin”
- Chinese: “利木森”
- Chinese: “利穆贊”
- Chinese: “利穆赞”
- Croatian: “Limousin”
- Czech: “Limousin”
- Danish: “Limousin”
- Dimli (individual language): “Limousin”
- Dutch: “Limousin”
- Esperanto: “Limoĝio”
- Estonian: “Limousin”
- Finnish: “Limousin”
- French: “Limousin”
- Galician: “Lemosín”
- Georgian: “ლიმუზენი”
- German: “Limousin”
- Greek: “Λιμουζέν”
- Hakka Chinese: “Limousin”
- Hebrew: “לימוזן”
- Hungarian: “Limousin”
- Ido: “Limousin”
- Indonesian: “Limousin”
- Irish: “Limousin”
- Italian: “Limosino”
- Japanese: “リムーザン地域圏”
- Javanese: “Limousin”
- Kazakh: “Лимузен”
- Korean: “리무쟁”
- Kurdish: “Limousin”
- Ladino: “Limousin”
- Latin: “Lemovicensis”
- Latvian: “Limuzēna”
- Lithuanian: “Limuzenas”
- Lombard: “Limousin”
- Luxembourgish: “Limousin”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Limousin”
- Macedonian: “Лимузен”
- Malay: “Limousin”
- Marathi: “लिमुझे”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Limousin”
- Mingrelian: “ლიმუზენი”
- Mongolian: “Лимузен”
- Narom: “Limouosin”
- Northern Sami: “Limousin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Limousin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Regionen Limousin”
- Norwegian: “Limousin”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lemosin”
- Ossetian: “Лимузен”
- Pampanga: “Limousin”
- Panjabi: “ਲਿਮੂਜ਼ੈਂ”
- Persian: “لیموزن”
- Persian: “لیموزین”
- Piemontese: “Limosin”
- Polish: “Limousin”
- Portuguese: “Limousin”
- Portuguese: “Limusino”
- Quechua: “Limousin”
- Romanian: “Limousin”
- Russian: “Limousin”
- Russian: “Лимузен (регион)”
- Russian: “Лимузен”
- Scots: “Limousin”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Limousin”
- Serbian: “Лимузен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Limousin”
- Sicilian: “Limusinu”
- Slovak: “Limuzínsko”
- Slovenian: “Limousin”
- South Azerbaijani: “لیموزن”
- Spanish: “Lemosin”
- Spanish: “Lemosín”
- Spanish: “Limosín”
- Swahili: “Limousin”
- Swedish: “Limousin”
- Tamil: “லிமொசீன்”
- Thai: “แคว้นลีมูแซ็ง”
- Turkish: “Limousin”
- Ukrainian: “Лімузен”
- Urdu: “لیموزن”
- Venetian: “Limousin”
- Vietnamese: “Limousin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Limousin”
- Welsh: “Limousin”
- Western Frisian: “Limousin”
- Western Panjabi: “لیموزین”
- Wu Chinese: “利穆赞”
- Yue Chinese: “利木森”
- “Limuśèṅ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Limousin”. Photo: Babsy, CC BY-SA 3.0.