Montpellier

Montpellier is the principal city in the region in southwest . It's been one of the fastest growing cities in France since the 1990s.
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  • Type: City with 302,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hérault, France
  • Postal codes: 34000, 34070, 34080, and 34090

Places of Interest

Highlights include Montpellier St. Roch Railway Station and Porte du Peyrou.

Railway station
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Montpellier-Saint-Roch station is the main railway station in Montpellier, France. The station was formerly known as Gare de Montpellier, but since March 2005 it has been named after Saint Roch, a native of the city who was born in the 14th century.

City gate
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The is a triumphal arch in Montpellier, in southern . It is situated at the eastern end of the Jardin de Peyrou, a park near the center of the city.

Church
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is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Peter and located in the city of Montpellier, . It is the seat of the Archbishops of Montpellier. The cathedral, built in the Gothic style, is a national monument.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castelnau-le-Lez and Antigone.

Town
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is a commune in the department in the region of Southern France. Located on the outskirts of Montpellier, it is situated around 3 km north of the city centre.

Quarter
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is a neighbourhood of Montpellier, , east of the city centre. It is best known for its architectural design by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura.

Neighborhood
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is a part of Mosson neighbourhood, in the West of the city of Montpellier, Hérault, France. The place name can be translated as new cellar. It first appeared in 's cartulary, written in 799, where it is mentioned that Benedict of Aniane created a priory, called Cella nova on the soil of , even before the city of Montpellier was founded.

Montpellier

Latitude
43.6112° or 43° 36′ 41″ north
Longitude
3.8767° or 3° 52′ 36″ east
Population
302,000
Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)
IATA airport code
MPL
United Nations Location Code
FR MPL
Open location code
8FM5JV6G+FM
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2992166
Wiki­data ID
Q6441
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Montpellier” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Montpellier”
  • Albanian: “Montpelje”
  • Albanian: “Montpellier”
  • Amharic: “ሞንፐልዬ”
  • Arabic: “مونبلييه”
  • Arabic: “مونبيلييه”
  • Aragonese: “Montpeller”
  • Armenian: “Մոնպելիե”
  • Arpitan: “Montpelyér”
  • Arpitan: “Montpelyiér”
  • Asturian: “Montpellier”
  • Azerbaijani: “Monpelye”
  • Balinese: “Montpellier”
  • Bambara: “Montpellier”
  • Basque: “Montpelhièr”
  • Basque: “Montpellier”
  • Bavarian: “Montpellier”
  • Belarusian: “Манпелье”
  • Belarusian: “Манпэлье”
  • Bengali: “মোঁপেলিয়ে”
  • Bosnian: “Montpellier”
  • Breton: “Montpelhièr”
  • Bulgarian: “Монпелие”
  • Burmese: “မောင်ပယ်လျေ”
  • Cajun French: “Montpellier”
  • Catalan: “Montpeller”
  • Cebuano: “Montpellier”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆنپیلییە”
  • Chechen: “Монпелье”
  • Chinese: “Montpellier”
  • Chinese: “夢比利耶”
  • Chinese: “蒙庇利埃”
  • Chinese: “蒙彼利埃”
  • Chinese: “蒙皮立”
  • Chuvash: “Монпелье”
  • Corsican: “Montpellier”
  • Croatian: “Montpellier”
  • Czech: “Montpellier”
  • Dagbani: “Montpellier”
  • Danish: “Montpellier”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Montpellier”
  • Dutch: “Montpellier”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مونبيلييه”
  • Esperanto: “Monpeljeo”
  • Esperanto: “Monpeljero”
  • Esperanto: “Montpeliero”
  • Esperanto: “Montpellier”
  • Estonian: “Montpellier”
  • Extremaduran: “Montpellier”
  • Faroese: “Montpellier”
  • Fijian: “Monipeli”
  • Finnish: “Montpellier”
  • French: “Clapas”
  • French: “Le Clapas”
  • French: “Montpellier”
  • Friulian: “Montpellier”
  • Galician: “Montpellier”
  • Gan Chinese: “蒙彼利埃”
  • Georgian: “მონპელიე”
  • German: “Montpellier”
  • Greek: “Μονπελιέ”
  • Gujarati: “મોન્ટપેલિયર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Montpellier”
  • Hausa: “Montpellier”
  • Hebrew: “מונפלייה”
  • Hindi: “मोंटपेलियर”
  • Hindi: “मोंपलिये”
  • Hungarian: “Montpellier”
  • Icelandic: “Montpellier”
  • Ido: “Montpellier”
  • Igbo: “Montpellier”
  • Indonesian: “Montpellier”
  • Interlingua: “Montpellier”
  • Interlingue: “Montpellier”
  • Irish: “Montpellier”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Piosaláin”
  • Italian: “Montpellier”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Montpellier”
  • Japanese: “モンペリエ”
  • Javanese: “Montpellier”
  • Kabyle: “Montpellier”
  • Kalaallisut: “Montpellier”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಂಟ್ಪೆಲ್ಲಿಯರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮೊಂಟ್ಪೆಲ್ಯರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Montpellier”
  • Kazakh: “Монпелье”
  • Kongo: “Montpellier”
  • Korean: “몽펠리에”
  • Kotava: “Montpellier”
  • Kurdish: “Montpellier”
  • Ladin: “Montpellier”
  • Latin: “Monspessulanus”
  • Latvian: “Monpeljē”
  • Ligurian: “Montpellier”
  • Limburgan: “Montpellier”
  • Lingala: “Montpellier”
  • Literary Chinese: “蒙庇利埃”
  • Lithuanian: “Monpeljė”
  • Lombard: “Montpellier”
  • Low German: “Montpellier”
  • Luxembourgish: “Montpellier”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Montpellier”
  • Macedonian: “Монпелје”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Montpellier”
  • Malagasy: “Montpellier”
  • Malay: “Montpellier”
  • Maltese: “Montpellier”
  • Marathi: “माँतपेलिए”
  • Mazanderani: “مونپلیه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Montpellier”
  • Minangkabau: “Montpellier”
  • Mingrelian: “მონპელიე”
  • Moksha: “Монпэлье”
  • Mongolian: “Монпелье”
  • Narom: “Montpellier”
  • Neapolitan: “Montpellier”
  • Northern Frisian: “Montpellier”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Montpellier”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Montpellier”
  • Norwegian: “Montpellier”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lo Clapàs”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Montpelhièr”
  • Ossetian: “Монпелье”
  • Papiamento: “Montpellier”
  • Persian: “مون‌پلیه”
  • Picard: “Montpellier”
  • Piemontese: “Montpellier”
  • Polish: “Montpellier”
  • Pontic: “Μονπελιέ”
  • Portuguese: “Montpellier”
  • Prussian: “Montpellier”
  • Quechua: “Montpellier”
  • Romagnol: “Montpellier”
  • Romanian: “Montpellier”
  • Romansh: “Montpellier”
  • Russian: “Монпелье”
  • Sango: “Montpellier”
  • Sardinian: “Montpellier”
  • Scots: “Montpellier”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Montpellier”
  • Serbian: “Montpellier”
  • Serbian: “Монпеље”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Montpellier”
  • Sicilian: “Montpellier”
  • Silesian: “Montpellier”
  • Sinhala: “මොන්ටෙපෙලියර්”
  • Slovak: “Montpellier”
  • Slovenian: “Montpellier”
  • Somali: “Montpellier”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مون‌پلیه”
  • Spanish: “Montpellier”
  • Swahili: “Montpellier”
  • Swedish: “Montpellier”
  • Swiss German: “Montpellier”
  • Tajik: “Монпелле”
  • Tamil: “மோண்ட்பெல்லியீர்”
  • Tatar: “Монпелье”
  • Tatar: “Моңпелье”
  • Telugu: “మాంట్పెల్లియర్”
  • Thai: “มงเปอลีเย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Montpellier”
  • Tumbuka: “Montpellier”
  • Turkish: “Montpellier”
  • Turkmen: “Montpellier”
  • Twi: “Montpellier”
  • Ukrainian: “Монпельє”
  • Urdu: “مونپیلیے”
  • Uzbek: “Montpellier”
  • Venetian: “Montpellier”
  • Vietnamese: “Montpellier”
  • Vlaams: “Montpellier”
  • Volapük: “Montpellier”
  • Walloon: “Montpellier”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Montpellier”
  • Welsh: “Montpellier”
  • Western Armenian: “Մոնփելիե”
  • Western Armenian: “Մոն­փե­լիէ”
  • Western Frisian: “Montpellier”
  • Western Panjabi: “مونٹپلائیر”
  • Wolof: “Montpellier”
  • Wu Chinese: “蒙彼利埃”
  • Yue Chinese: “夢比利耶”
  • Zeeuws: “Montpellier”
  • Zulu: “Montpellier”
  • “Montpelhièr”
  • “Montpellier”

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