Occitanie
Gard
Arrondissement of Nîmes

Nîmes

Nîmes is a city with a population of around 137,000 in the département of in the south of . It has a stunning Roman temple whose pristine condition is unmatched by any extant ones in . There are a few other fine Roman relics and Diana's Palace.
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  • Type: City with 148,000 residents
  • Description: city and prefecture of the Gard department in the Occitanie region of Southern France
  • Also known as: “Nimes” and “Nismes”
  • Postal codes: 30000, 30000, 30900, and 30900

Places of Interest

Highlights include Maison Carrée and Arena of Nimes.

Museum
Photo: Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern ; it is one of the best-preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire.

Stadium
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The Arena of Nîmes is a Roman amphitheatre in Nîmes, Southern France. Built around 100 AD, shortly after the of , it is one of the best-preserved Roman amphitheatres in the world.

Railway station
Photo: G CHP, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Nîmes station is a railway station in Nîmes, département, France. It is located at 1 Boulevard Sergent Triaire, 30000 Nîmes.

Nîmes

Latitude
43.8374° or 43° 50′ 15″ north
Longitude
4.3601° or 4° 21′ 36″ east
Population
148,000
Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)
IATA airport code
FNI
United Nations Location Code
FR FNI
Open location code
8FM6R9P6+X2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26686585
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2990363
Wiki­data ID
Q42807
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Nîmes” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nimes”
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  • Albanian: “Nîmes”
  • Arabic: “نيم”
  • Aragonese: “Nimes”
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  • Armenian: “Նիմ”
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  • Belarusian: “Нім”
  • Bengali: “নিম, ফ্রান্স”
  • Bhojpuri: “नीम”
  • Breton: “Nimes”
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  • Bulgarian: “Ним”
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  • Catalan: “Nimes”
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  • Catalan: “Nimesencs”
  • Catalan: “Nimesenques”
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  • Cebuano: “Nîmes”
  • Chechen: “Ним”
  • Chinese: “Nîmes”
  • Chinese: “尼姆”
  • Chuvash: “Ним”
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  • Esperanto: “Nimo”
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  • Finnish: “Nemausus”
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  • French: “Nemessus”
  • French: “Nime”
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  • French: “Rome française”
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  • Galician: “Nimes”
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  • Georgian: “ნიმი”
  • German: “Colonia Augusta Nemausus”
  • German: “Colonia Nemausus”
  • German: “Nemausus”
  • German: “Nimes”
  • German: “Nîmes”
  • Greek: “Γαλλική Ρώμη”
  • Greek: “Κουρμπεσάκ”
  • Greek: “Νεμεσός”
  • Greek: “Νιμ”
  • Gujarati: “નિમ્સ”
  • Hausa: “Nîmes”
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  • Italian: “Nemausus”
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  • Japanese: “ニーム”
  • Kabyle: “Nîmes”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nîmes”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಮ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ним”
  • Kongo: “Nîmes”
  • Korean: “님”
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  • Ladin: “Nîmes”
  • Latin: “Nemausus”
  • Latvian: “Nima”
  • Latvian: “Nīma”
  • Latvian: “Nimes”
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  • Maltese: “Nismes”
  • Marathi: “निम्स”
  • Mazanderani: “نیم”
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  • Northern Frisian: “Nîmes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nimes”
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  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nimes”
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  • Norwegian: “Nîmes”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nemze (forma antica)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nimes”
  • Ossetian: “Ним”
  • Papiamento: “Nîmes”
  • Persian: “نیم”
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  • Pontic: “Νιμ”
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  • Romansh: “Nîmes”
  • Russian: “Ним”
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  • Serbian: “Nimes”
  • Serbian: “Nîmes”
  • Serbian: “Ним”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nim”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nimes”
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  • Sicilian: “Nîmes”
  • Silesian: “Nîmes”
  • Sinhala: “නිම්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Nîmes”
  • Slovenian: “Nimes”
  • Slovenian: “Nîmes”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیم”
  • Spanish: “Nemausus”
  • Spanish: “Nimes”
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  • Swahili: “Nîmes”
  • Swedish: “Nimes”
  • Swedish: “Nîmes”
  • Swiss German: “Nîmes”
  • Tamil: “நீமெஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Ним”
  • Telugu: “నీమ్”
  • Thai: “นีม”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nîmes”
  • Turkish: “Nimes”
  • Turkish: “Nîmes”
  • Ukrainian: “Нім”
  • Urdu: “نیم (شہر)”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Nîmes”
  • Welsh: “Nîmes”
  • Western Armenian: “Նիմ”
  • Western Frisian: “Nimes”
  • Western Frisian: “Nîmes”
  • Western Panjabi: “نائیم”
  • Wolof: “Nîmes”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼姆”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼姆”
  • Zulu: “Nîmes”
  • “Nîmes”
  • “नीम, फ्रांस”

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