Linz

Linz is the third largest city in . It sits on the banks of the river. It is the capital of the federal province of and forms the heart of Austria's second strongest economic region.
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  • Type: City with 208,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Upper Austria, Austria
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Raiffeisen Arena and New Cathedral, Linz.

Stadium
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is a football stadium in Linz, the capital of the state of . It opened in 2023 on the site of the Linzer Stadion, which was built in 1952 and demolished in 2021.

Church
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The New Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Linz, . The neo-Gothic church is the largest church building in Austria.

Museum
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The Lentos Art Museum is a of modern art in Linz, , which opened in May 2003 as the successor to the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz. The museum was designed by Zurich-based architectural firm Weber & Hofer.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leonding and Puchenau.

Town
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is a town southwest of Linz in the Austrian state of . It borders and the river in the north, and in the west, in the south and Linz in the east.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Urfahr-Umgebung in the state of . Until 1893 it was part of the neighbouring town of .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Linz

Latitude
48.3059° or 48° 18′ 21″ north
Longitude
14.2862° or 14° 17′ 10″ east
Population
208,000
Elevation
266 metres (873 feet)
IATA airport code
LNZ
United Nations Location Code
AT LNZ
Open location code
8FWP874P+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25181326
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2772400
Wiki­data ID
Q41329
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Linz” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Linz”
  • Albanian: “Linc”
  • Albanian: “Linz”
  • Amharic: “ሊንዝ”
  • Arabic: “لنتس”
  • Arabic: “لينتز”
  • Arabic: “لينتس”
  • Arabic: “لينز”
  • Aragonese: “Linz”
  • Armenian: “Լինց”
  • Asturian: “Linz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lins”
  • Azerbaijani: “Linz”
  • Balinese: “Linz”
  • Bashkir: “Линц”
  • Basque: “Linz”
  • Bavarian: “Linz”
  • Belarusian: “Лінц”
  • Bengali: “লিনজ”
  • Bengali: “লিনৎস”
  • Bengali: “লিন্‌জ”
  • Bengali: “লীন্জ”
  • Bosnian: “Linz”
  • Breton: “Linz”
  • Bulgarian: “Линц”
  • Catalan: “Linz”
  • Cebuano: “Linz”
  • Central Kurdish: “لینتز”
  • Central Kurdish: “لینز”
  • Chechen: “Линц”
  • Chinese: “Linz”
  • Chinese: “林茨”
  • Chinese: “林茲”
  • Chinese: “連茨”
  • Chinese: “連茲”
  • Corsican: “Linz”
  • Croatian: “Linz”
  • Czech: “Linc”
  • Czech: “Linec”
  • Czech: “Linz”
  • Czech: “Okres Linz”
  • Danish: “Linz”
  • Dutch: “Linz”
  • Eastern Mari: “Линц”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لينتس”
  • Erzya: “Линц”
  • Esperanto: “Linco”
  • Esperanto: “Linz”
  • Estonian: “Linz”
  • Finnish: “Linz”
  • French: “Linz”
  • Galician: “Linz”
  • Georgian: “ევროპული მარშრუტი E60”
  • Georgian: “ლინყი”
  • Georgian: “ლინცი”
  • German: “Linz an der Donau”
  • German: “Linz”
  • Gothic: “𐌻𐌹𐌽𐌶”
  • Greek: “Λιντς”
  • Gujarati: “લિન્ઝ”
  • Hausa: “Linz”
  • Hebrew: “לינץ”
  • Hindi: “लिंज़”
  • Hindi: “लिंत्स”
  • Hungarian: “Linz”
  • Icelandic: “Linz”
  • Ido: “Linz”
  • Indonesian: “Linz”
  • Interlingue: “Linz”
  • Irish: “Linz”
  • Italian: “Linz”
  • Japanese: “リンツ”
  • Javanese: “Linz”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಂಜ್”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿನ್ಸ್”
  • Karekare: “Linz”
  • Kazakh: “Линц”
  • Kirghiz: “Линц”
  • Korean: “린츠”
  • Ladin: “Linz”
  • Latin: “Lentia”
  • Latin: “Lentii”
  • Latin: “Lincii”
  • Latin: “Lincium”
  • Latvian: “Linca”
  • Latvian: “Linz”
  • Lezghian: “Линц”
  • Lithuanian: “Lincas”
  • Lithuanian: “Linz”
  • Lombard: “Linz”
  • Low German: “Linz”
  • Luxembourgish: “Linz”
  • Macedonian: “Линц”
  • Malagasy: “Linz”
  • Malay: “Linz”
  • Marathi: “लिंझ”
  • Marathi: “लिंत्स”
  • Marathi: “लिन्झ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Linz”
  • Mingrelian: “ლინცი”
  • Moksha: “Линц”
  • Mongolian: “Линц”
  • Northern Frisian: “Linz”
  • Northern Sami: “Linz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Linz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Linz”
  • Norwegian: “Linz”
  • Novial: “Linz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Linz”
  • Oromo: “Linz”
  • Ossetian: “Линц”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਿਨਜ਼”
  • Papiamento: “Linz”
  • Persian: “لینتز”
  • Persian: “لینتس”
  • Piemontese: “Linz”
  • Polish: “Linz”
  • Portuguese: “Linz”
  • Pushto: “لينز”
  • Pushto: “لینڅ”
  • Quechua: “Linz”
  • Romanian: “Linz”
  • Russian: “Лентия”
  • Russian: “Линц”
  • Sardinian: “Linz”
  • Scots: “Linz”
  • Serbian: “Linz”
  • Serbian: “Линц”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Linz”
  • Silesian: “Linz”
  • Sinhala: “ලිනස්, ඔස්ට්‍රියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ලිනස්”
  • Slovak: “Linec”
  • Slovak: “Linz”
  • Slovenian: “Linz”
  • Somali: “Linz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لینتس”
  • Spanish: “Linz”
  • Swahili: “Linz”
  • Swedish: “Linz”
  • Tajik: “Линц”
  • Tamil: “லின்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Линц”
  • Telugu: “లింట్స్”
  • Thai: “Linz”
  • Thai: “ลินซ์”
  • Thai: “ลินทซ์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Linz”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Linz”
  • Tumbuka: “Linz”
  • Turkish: “Linz”
  • Turkmen: “Linz”
  • Ukrainian: “Лінц”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Linz”
  • Urdu: “لنز”
  • Urdu: “لینتز”
  • Urdu: “لینتس”
  • Uzbek: “Lins”
  • Uzbek: “Linz”
  • Venetian: “Linz”
  • Veps: “Linc”
  • Vietnamese: “Linz”
  • Volapük: “Linz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Linz”
  • Welsh: “Linz”
  • Western Armenian: “Լինց”
  • Western Frisian: “Linz”
  • Western Panjabi: “لنز”
  • Wu Chinese: “林自”
  • Wu Chinese: “林茨”
  • Yiddish: “לינץ”
  • Yue Chinese: “林茲”
  • Zeeuws: “Linz”
  • “Linz”

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