Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Greater Lyon
Arrondissement of Lyon

Lyon

Lyon is the capital of the administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. A city of half a million, Lyon alone is the country's third-largest city, but its metropolitan area is only second in population to .
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  • Type: City with 522,000 residents
  • Description: city of France
  • Also known as: “City of Lyon” and “Commune-Affranchie”
  • Postal codes: 69000-69002 and 69002-69009
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon and Gare de Lyon-Perrache.

Museum
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The is a municipal of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. Located near the , it is housed in a former Benedictine convent which was active during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Railway station
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Lyon–Perrache or simply Perrache is a large railway station located in the Perrache quarter, in the of Lyon, France. Historically the primary railway station in Lyon, today it is the city's second-busiest station, after the newer .

Church
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or the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist of Lyon is a Roman Catholic church located on in central Lyon, France. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Lyon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 3rd arrondissement of Lyon and 7th arrondissement of Lyon.

Suburb
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The is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.

Suburb
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The is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.

Suburb
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The is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.

Lyon

Latitude
45.7578° or 45° 45′ 28″ north
Longitude
4.832° or 4° 49′ 55″ east
Population
522,000
Elevation
173 metres (568 feet)
IATA airport code
LYS
United Nations Location Code
FR LIO
Open location code
8FQ6QR5J+4R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20626319
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2996944
Wiki­data ID
Q456
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lyon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lyon”
  • Albanian: “Lion”
  • Amharic: “ልዮን”
  • Arabic: “ليون”
  • Aragonese: “León d’o Roine”
  • Aragonese: “León do Roine”
  • Armenian: “Լիոն”
  • Arpitan: “Leyon”
  • Arpitan: “Liyon”
  • Asturian: “Lyon”
  • Aymara: “Lyon”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lion”
  • Balinese: “Lyon”
  • Bambara: “Lyon”
  • Basque: “Lyon”
  • Bavarian: “Lyon”
  • Belarusian: “Ліён”
  • Bengali: “লিওঁ”
  • Bengali: “লিয়ঁ”
  • Bengali: “লিয়োঁ”
  • Bosnian: “Lyon”
  • Breton: “Lyon”
  • Bulgarian: “Лион”
  • Burmese: “လီယွန်းမြို့”
  • Burmese: “လီယောင်မြို့”
  • Cajun French: “Lyon”
  • Catalan: “Lió”
  • Cebuano: “Lyon”
  • Central Kurdish: “لیۆن”
  • Central Okinawan: “りよん”
  • Chechen: “Лион”
  • Chinese: “Lyon”
  • Chinese: “里昂”
  • Chuvash: “Лион”
  • Cornish: “Lyon”
  • Corsican: “Lyon”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Lion”
  • Croatian: “Lyon”
  • Czech: “Lyon”
  • Danish: “Lyon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lyon”
  • Dutch: “Lyon”
  • Eastern Mari: “Лион”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليون”
  • Esperanto: “Liono”
  • Esperanto: “Lyon”
  • Estonian: “Lyon”
  • Extremaduran: “Lyon”
  • Faroese: “Lyon”
  • Fijian: “Lyon”
  • Finnish: “Lyon”
  • French: “capitale des Gaules”
  • French: “Commune-Affranchie”
  • French: “Lyon”
  • Friulian: “Lyon”
  • Galician: “Lión”
  • Georgian: “ლიონი”
  • German: “Leyden”
  • German: “Lion”
  • German: “Lyon”
  • German: “Welsch-Leyden”
  • Gothic: “𐌻𐌹𐌰𐌿𐌽”
  • Greek: “Λυών”
  • Guarani: “Liõ”
  • Gujarati: “લિયોન”
  • Haitian: “Lyon (vil)”
  • Haitian: “Lyon”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lyon”
  • Hausa: “Lyon”
  • Hebrew: “ליון”
  • Hindi: “ल्यों”
  • Hungarian: “Lyon”
  • Icelandic: “Lyon”
  • Ido: “Lyon”
  • Igbo: “Lyon”
  • Indonesian: “Lyon”
  • Interlingua: “Lyon”
  • Interlingue: “Lyon”
  • Irish: “Lyon”
  • Italian: “Lione”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Lyon”
  • Japanese: “リヨン”
  • Javanese: “Lyon”
  • Kabyle: “Lyon”
  • Kalaallisut: “Lyon”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಯೋನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಲ್ಯೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Commune-Affranchie”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Lyon qalası”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Lyon”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Lyons”
  • Kazakh: “Лион”
  • Kirghiz: “Лион”
  • Kongo: “Lyon”
  • Korean: “리옹”
  • Kotava: “Lyon”
  • Kurdish: “Liyon”
  • Kurdish: “Lyon”
  • Ladin: “Lyon”
  • Ladino: “Lyon”
  • Latin: “Lugdunum”
  • Latvian: “Liona”
  • Ligurian: “Lion”
  • Limburgan: “Lyon”
  • Lingala: “Lyon”
  • Lithuanian: “Lionas”
  • Lojban: “lion”
  • Lombard: “Liun”
  • Low German: “Lyon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lyon”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Lyon”
  • Macedonian: “Лион”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Lyon”
  • Malagasy: “Lyon”
  • Malay: “Lyon”
  • Malayalam: “ലിയോൺ”
  • Maltese: “Lyon”
  • Manx: “Lyon”
  • Manx: “Lyons”
  • Maori: “Lyon”
  • Marathi: “ल्यों”
  • Mazanderani: “لیون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lyon”
  • Minangkabau: “Lyon”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიონი”
  • Mongolian: “Лион”
  • Narom: “Lyon”
  • Neapolitan: “Lione”
  • Nepali: “लियोन”
  • Newari: “लियोन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lyon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lyon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lyon”
  • Norwegian: “Lyon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lion”
  • Oriya: “ଲିଓନ”
  • Oromo: “Liyoon”
  • Ossetian: “Лион”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਿਓਂ”
  • Papiamento: “Lyon”
  • Persian: “لیون”
  • Picard: “Lyon”
  • Piemontese: “Lion”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Lioen”
  • Polish: “Lyon”
  • Pontic: “Λιόν”
  • Pontic: “Λυών”
  • Portuguese: “Lião”
  • Portuguese: “Lion”
  • Portuguese: “Lyon”
  • Prussian: “Lyon”
  • Pushto: “لیون”
  • Quechua: “Lyon”
  • Romagnol: “Lyon”
  • Romanian: “Lyon”
  • Romansh: “Lyon”
  • Russian: “Лион”
  • Sardinian: “Lione”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Liyon”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Lyon”
  • Scots: “Lyon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lyon”
  • Serbian: “Lyon”
  • Serbian: “Лион”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lyon”
  • Sicilian: “Lioni”
  • Silesian: “Lyon”
  • Sinhala: “ලියොන්”
  • Slovak: “Lyon”
  • Slovenian: “Lyon”
  • Somali: “Lyon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیون”
  • Spanish: “Lyon”
  • Swahili: “Lyon”
  • Swedish: “Lyon”
  • Swiss German: “Lyon”
  • Tachawit: “Lion”
  • Tagalog: “Lyon”
  • Tahitian: “Lyon”
  • Tajik: “Лион”
  • Talysh: “Lion”
  • Tamil: “லியோன்”
  • Tatar: “Лион”
  • Tatar: “Лиоң”
  • Telugu: “లియాన్”
  • Thai: “ลียง”
  • Tibetan: “ལི་ཡོང་།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Lyon”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Lyon”
  • Tumbuka: “Lyon”
  • Turkish: “Lyon”
  • Turkmen: “Lyon”
  • Twi: “Lyon”
  • Uighur: “Lion”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліон”
  • Urdu: “لیون”
  • Urdu: “لیوں”
  • Uzbek: “Lion”
  • Venetian: “Lion”
  • Veps: “Lion”
  • Vietnamese: “Lyon”
  • Vlaams: “Lyon”
  • Vlax Romani: “Lyon”
  • Volapük: “Lyon”
  • Walloon: “Lyon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lyon”
  • Welsh: “Lyon”
  • Western Armenian: “Լիոն”
  • Western Frisian: “Lyon”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیون”
  • Wolof: “Lyon”
  • Wu Chinese: “里昂”
  • Yiddish: “ליאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “里昂”
  • Zeeuws: “Lyon”
  • Zulu: “Lyon”
  • “Liòṅ”
  • “Lyon”
  • “Lyon, Rhône”
  • “Lyons”
  • “ma Lijon”
  • “ma Lyon”
  • “ma tomo Lijon”
  • “ma tomo Lyon”

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