Western Switzerland
Vaud
Nyon District

Nyon

Nyon is a small town on the western shore of , . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 19,700 residents
  • Description: municipality and city in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “CH5724”, “Neuss”, “Nione”, “Nione, Vaud”, “Nyon, Vaud”, and “Nyon, VD”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Colovray Sports Centre and Lake Geneva Museum.

Stadium
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Centre Sportif de Colovray Nyon is where FC Stade Nyonnais play their home football and rugby games. The site is opposite the UEFA headquarters. The centre has six pitches for different sports and hosts a variety of activities, football, rugby and athletics.

Museum
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The is located in Nyon, Switzerland. It was founded in 1954, and was created for the many artifacts found in the lake, such as shipwrecks, models, and engines. It also contains aquariums with images of wildlife.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Nyon, in the canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways and the southern terminus of the 1,000 mm metre gauge Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez line of the Chemin de fer Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Prangins and Eysins.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of in . It is located on .

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of in .

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of in .

Nyon

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
node 240039598
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7286671
Wiki­data ID
Q64027
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Nyon” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Nioni”
  • Albanian: “Nyon”
  • Arabic: “نيون”
  • Armenian: “Նյոն”
  • Arpitan: “Nion”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nyon”
  • Basque: “Nyon”
  • Belarusian: “Ньён”
  • Bengali: “নিওঁ”
  • Breton: “Nyon”
  • Bulgarian: “Нион”
  • Catalan: “Nyon”
  • Cebuano: “Nyon (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Nyon”
  • Chinese: “Nyon”
  • Chinese: “尼庸”
  • 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: “Changins”
  • German: “Colonia Iulia Equestris”
  • German: “L’Asse”
  • German: “Les Plantaz”
  • German: “Neuis”
  • German: “Neuss”
  • German: “Nyon”
  • Greek: “Νιόν”
  • Hebrew: “ניון”
  • Hungarian: “Nyon”
  • Indonesian: “Nyon”
  • Irish: “Nyon”
  • Italian: “Nione”
  • Italian: “Nyon”
  • Japanese: “ニヨン”
  • Korean: “니옹”
  • Kurdish: “Nyon”
  • Latin: “Iulia Equestris”
  • Latin: “Julia Equestris”
  • 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: “Nyon”
  • Serbian: “Нион”
  • Sicilian: “Nyon”
  • Slovak: “Nyon”
  • Slovenian: “Nyon”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیون”
  • Spanish: “Nyon”
  • Swedish: “Nyon”
  • Swiss German: “Nyon”
  • Tatar: “Ньоң”
  • Thai: “นียง”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nyon”
  • Turkish: “Nyon”
  • Ukrainian: “Ньйон”
  • Ukrainian: “Ньон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nyon”
  • Venetian: “Nyon”
  • Vietnamese: “Nyon”
  • Volapük: “Nyon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nyon”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼永”
  • “Nyon”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Nyon”. Photo: ajvhan, CC BY 2.0.