Nyon
Nyon is a small town on the western shore of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. The Romans who founded the settlement in the 1st century BC called it Noviodunum. Today you can visit a few Roman ruins and a Roman museum.
- Type: Town with 19,700 residents
- Description: municipality and city in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
- Also known as: “CH5724”, “Iulia Equestris”, “Julia Equestris”, “Neuis”, “Neuss”, “Nione”, “Nione, Vaud”, “Nioni”, “Nyon, Vaud”, “Nyon, VD”, and “尼庸”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Lake Geneva Museum and Colovray Sports Centre.
Colovray Sports Centre
Stadium
Nyon railway station
Railway station
Nyon railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Nyon, in the Swiss canton of Vaud.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prangins and Eysins.
Prangins
Village
Eysins
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Duillier
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Nyon
- Categories: municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Nyon District, Vaud, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.3821° or 46° 22′ 55″ north
Longitude
6.2403° or 6° 14′ 25″ east
Population
19,700
Elevation
420 metres (1,378 feet)
Open location code
8FR896JR+R4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Nyon” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Nyon”
- Arabic: “نيون”
- Aragonese: “Nyon”
- Armenian: “Նյոն”
- Arpitan: “Nion”
- Azerbaijani: “Nyon”
- Basque: “Nyon”
- Belarusian: “Ньён”
- Bengali: “নিওঁ”
- Breton: “Nyon”
- Bulgarian: “Нион”
- Catalan: “Nyon”
- Cebuano: “Nyon (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Nyon”
- Chinese: “尼永”
- Chinese: “尼翁”
- Croatian: “Nyon”
- Czech: “Nyon”
- Danish: “Nyon”
- Dutch: “Nyon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيون”
- Esperanto: “Nyon”
- Estonian: “Nyon”
- Finnish: “Nyon”
- French: “Nyon”
- Galician: “Nyon”
- Georgian: “ნიონი”
- German: “Nyon”
- Greek: “Νιόν”
- Hebrew: “ניון”
- Hungarian: “Nyon”
- Indonesian: “Nyon”
- Irish: “Nyon”
- Italian: “Nyon”
- Japanese: “ニヨン”
- Korean: “니옹”
- Kurdish: “Nyon”
- Latin: “Noviodunum”
- Latvian: “Niona”
- Lithuanian: “Nionas”
- Lombard: “Nyon”
- Luxembourgish: “Nyon”
- Malay: “Nyon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nyon”
- Mingrelian: “ნიონი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nyon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nyon”
- Norwegian: “Nyon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nyon”
- Persian: “نیون”
- Polish: “Nyon”
- Portuguese: “Nyon”
- Romanian: “Nyon”
- Romansh: “Nyon”
- Russian: “Ньон”
- Scots: “Nyon”
- Serbian: “Нион”
- Sicilian: “Nyon”
- Silesian: “Nyon”
- Slovak: “Nyon”
- Slovenian: “Nyon”
- South Azerbaijani: “نیون”
- Spanish: “Nyon”
- Swedish: “Nyon”
- Swiss German: “Nyon”
- Tajik: “Нён”
- Tatar: “Ньоң”
- Thai: “นียง”
- Turkish: “Nyon”
- Ukrainian: “Ньйон”
- Upper Sorbian: “Nyon”
- Venetian: “Nyon”
- Vietnamese: “Nyon”
- Volapük: “Nyon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nyon”
- Wu Chinese: “尼永”
- “Nyon”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Village des Pêcheurs and Quartier de la Paix.
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