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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  • City with 522,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 173 metres (568 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code LYS
  • Description: city of France
  • Postal codes: 69000-69009
  • Also known as
    “City of Lyon”
    “Commune-Affranchie”
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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.

Railway station
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Lyon–Perrache or simply Perrache is a large railway…

Church
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or the Cathedral of Saint John the…

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

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Latitude
45.7578° or 45° 45′ 28″ north
Longitude
4.832° or 4° 49′ 55″ east
UN/LOCODE
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: “里昂”
  • Chuvash: “Лион”
  • Cornish: “Lyon”
  • Corsican: “Lyon”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Lion”
  • Croatian: “Lyon”
  • Czech: “Lyon”
  • Dagbani: “Lyon”
  • Danish: “Lyon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lyon”
  • Dutch: “Lyon”
  • Eastern Mari: “Лион”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليون”
  • Emilian: “Liòṅ”
  • 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”
  • Jèrriais: “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”
  • Khmer: “លីយ៉ុង”
  • 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”
  • Neapolitan: “Lione”
  • Nepali: “लियोन”
  • Newari: “लियोन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lyon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lyon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lyon”
  • Norwegian: “Lyon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lion”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lugdunceaster”
  • 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”
  • Sindhi: “ليون، فرانس”
  • Sinhala: “ලියොන්”
  • Slovak: “Lyon”
  • Slovenian: “Lyon”
  • Somali: “Lyon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیون”
  • Spanish: “León de Francia”
  • Spanish: “León del Ródano”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • “Lyon, Rhône”
  • “ma Lijon”
  • “ma Lyon”
  • “ma tomo Lijon”
  • “ma tomo Lyon”

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