Grand Est
Moselle
Arrondissement of Metz-Ville

Metz

Metz is in the Lorraine region of that borders and . Metz and the rest of the region offer much to view of historical interest, as well as a well-rounded shopping scene, ranging from the low- to high-end and including a great Saturday farmers' market.
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  • Type: City with 121,000 residents
  • Description: city in Grand Est, France
  • Also known as: “Divodurum”
  • Postal codes: 57000, 57000, 57050, 57050, 57070, and 57070

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stade Saint-Symphorien and Centre Pompidou-Metz.

Stadium
Photo: Aimelaime, Public domain.
Stade Municipal Saint-Symphorien is a multi-purpose stadium located on the "island Saint-Symphorien" in , near Metz, . It is currently used mostly for football matches, by Ligue 1 club FC Metz.

Museum
The is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Metz, capital of Lorraine, . It is a branch of Pompidou arts centre of , and features semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions from the large collection of the , the largest European collection of 20th and 21st century arts.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is the cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Metz, the seat of the bishops of Metz. It is dedicated to Saint Stephen. The diocese dates back at least to the 4th century and the present cathedral building was begun in the early 14th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Woippy and Imperial Quarter of Metz.

Town
Photo: Freddo, Public domain.
is a French commune in the department, , located near Metz. houses the 6th Régiment du matériel. Woippy-Triage is the largest classification yard in France.

Quarter
Photo: MJJR, CC BY 3.0.
The is a district of the city of Metz, in the région of Grand-Est, in eastern France, initially built between 1902 and 1914 by the government of the ruling German Wilhelmine Empire, during the period of annexation of Alsace-Lorraine.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Metz

Latitude
49.1197° or 49° 7′ 11″ north
Longitude
6.1764° or 6° 10′ 35″ east
Population
121,000
Elevation
182 metres (597 feet)
IATA airport code
ETZ
United Nations Location Code
FR MZM
Open location code
8FX8459G+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26686463
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2994160
Wiki­data ID
Q22690
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Metz” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Metz”
  • Albanian: “Mec”
  • Albanian: “Metz”
  • Amharic: “መትዝ”
  • Arabic: “متز”
  • Aragonese: “Metz”
  • Armenian: “Մեց”
  • Arpitan: “Metz”
  • Asturian: “Metz”
  • Aymara: “Metz”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mets”
  • Bambara: “Metz”
  • Basque: “Metz”
  • Bavarian: “Metz”
  • Belarusian: “Мец”
  • Belarusian: “Мэц”
  • Bengali: “মেৎস”
  • Bosnian: “Metz”
  • Breton: “Metz”
  • Bulgarian: “Мес”
  • Bulgarian: “Метц”
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  • Cajun French: “Metz”
  • Catalan: “Metz”
  • Cebuano: “Metz”
  • Chechen: “Мец”
  • Chinese: “Metz”
  • Chinese: “梅斯”
  • Chinese: “梅茲”
  • Chuvash: “Мец”
  • Corsican: “Metz”
  • Croatian: “Metz”
  • Czech: “Divodurum Mediomatricorum”
  • Czech: “Divodurum”
  • Czech: “Mettis”
  • Czech: “Mety”
  • Czech: “Méty”
  • Czech: “Metz”
  • Dagbani: “Metz”
  • Danish: “Metz”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Metz”
  • Dutch: “Metz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متز”
  • Esperanto: “Meco”
  • Esperanto: “Messo”
  • Esperanto: “Metz”
  • Estonian: “Metz”
  • Faroese: “Metz”
  • Finnish: “Metz”
  • French: “Divodurum Mediomatricorum”
  • French: “Divodurum”
  • French: “Metz”
  • Friulian: “Metz”
  • Galician: “Metz”
  • Georgian: “მეცი”
  • German: “Divodurum”
  • German: “Metz”
  • Greek: “Μεζ”
  • Greek: “Μετζ”
  • Greek: “Μετς”
  • Gujarati: “મેટ્ઝ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Metz”
  • Hausa: “Metz”
  • Hebrew: “מץ”
  • Hindi: “मेंस/मेंत्स”
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  • Ido: “Metz”
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  • Irish: “Metz”
  • Italian: “Metz”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Metz”
  • Japanese: “メス”
  • Japanese: “メッス”
  • Javanese: “Métz”
  • Kabyle: “Metz”
  • Kalaallisut: “Metz”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಟ್ಜ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮೇತ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Мец”
  • Kongo: “Metz”
  • Korean: “메스”
  • Korean: “메츠”
  • Kotava: “Metz”
  • Kurdish: “Metz”
  • Ladin: “Metz”
  • Latin: “Divodurum Mediomatricorum”
  • Latin: “Divodurum”
  • Latin: “Mediomatricum”
  • Latin: “Metae”
  • Latin: “Meti”
  • Latin: “Mettae”
  • Latin: “Metti”
  • Latin: “Mettis”
  • Latin: “Metz”
  • Latvian: “Meca”
  • Latvian: “Metz”
  • Ligurian: “Metz”
  • Limburgan: “Metz”
  • Lingala: “Metz”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Metz”
  • Lithuanian: “Mecas”
  • Lithuanian: “Metz”
  • Lombard: “Metz”
  • Low German: “Metz”
  • Luxembourgish: “Metz”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Metz”
  • Macedonian: “Mecas”
  • Macedonian: “Mettis”
  • Macedonian: “Mety”
  • Macedonian: “Metz”
  • Macedonian: “Mètz”
  • Macedonian: “Μετς”
  • Macedonian: “Мец”
  • Macedonian: “Мэц”
  • Macedonian: “მეცი”
  • Macedonian: “מעץ”
  • Macedonian: “מץ”
  • Macedonian: “متز”
  • Macedonian: “ميتز”
  • Macedonian: “መትዝ”
  • Macedonian: “मेस”
  • Macedonian: “மெட்சு”
  • Macedonian: “แม็ส”
  • Macedonian: “མེ་ཊི་ཛི།”
  • Macedonian: “메스”
  • Macedonian: “メス”
  • Macedonian: “梅斯”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Metz”
  • Malagasy: “Metz”
  • Malay: “Metz”
  • Maltese: “Metz”
  • Marathi: “मेस”
  • Mazanderani: “متز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Metz”
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  • Narom: “Metz”
  • Neapolitan: “Metz”
  • Northern Frisian: “Metz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Metz”
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  • Norwegian: “Metz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Metz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mètz”
  • Ossetian: “Мец”
  • Papiamento: “Metz”
  • Persian: “متز”
  • Persian: “متس”
  • Persian: “مس، فرانسه”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Meds”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Metz”
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  • Prussian: “Metz”
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  • Romanian: “Metz”
  • Romansh: “Metz”
  • Russian: “Диводур”
  • Russian: “Мец”
  • Sardinian: “Metz”
  • Scots: “Metz”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Metz”
  • Serbian: “Metz”
  • Serbian: “Мец”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mec”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Metz”
  • Sicilian: “Metz”
  • Silesian: “Metz”
  • Sinhala: “මෙට්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Méty”
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  • Slovenian: “Metz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “متز”
  • Spanish: “Metz”
  • Swahili: “Metz”
  • Swedish: “Metz”
  • Swiss German: “Metz”
  • Tajik: “Метзс”
  • Tamil: “மெட்சு”
  • Tamil: “மெட்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Мец”
  • Telugu: “మెత్స్”
  • Thai: “Metz”
  • Thai: “เมท์ซ”
  • Thai: “เม็ทซ์”
  • Thai: “เม็ส”
  • Thai: “แม็ส”
  • Tibetan: “མེ་ཊི་ཛི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Metz”
  • Turkish: “Metz”
  • Twi: “Metz”
  • Twi: “Mεts”
  • Udmurt: “Мец”
  • Ukrainian: “Мец”
  • Urdu: “میتز”
  • Uzbek: “Metz”
  • Venetian: “Metz”
  • Vietnamese: “Metz”
  • Vlaams: “Metz”
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  • Walloon: “Metz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Metz”
  • Welsh: “Metz”
  • Western Panjabi: “میٹز”
  • Wolof: “Metz”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅斯”
  • Yiddish: “מעץ”
  • Yue Chinese: “梅斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Metz”
  • Zulu: “Metz”
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