Centre-Val de Loire
Loiret
Arrondissement of Orléans

Orléans

Orleans is the capital of the region of north-central , located some 120 km south-west of the French capital, . The city has just above 100,000 citizens, with a total of 400,000 in the metropolitan area.
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  • Type: City with 117,000 residents
  • Description: large city and commune in Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France
  • Also known as: “Cenabum”, “civitas Aurelianensis”, “civitas Aurelianorum”, “Genabum”, “Orelianum”, “Orleans”, and “Orliens”
  • Postal codes: 45000, 45000, 45100, and 45100

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of the Holy Cross of Orléans and Orléans station.

Church
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Orléans Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in the city of Orléans, . The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Orléans. Built on the ruins of a Roman temple from 1278 to 1329, the cathedral was partially destroyed in 1568 by the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion and rebuilt in a Gothic style between 1601 and 1829.

Railway station
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is a railway station serving the city Orléans, department, central . It is situated on the Paris–Bordeaux railway. The Gare d'Orléans is a terminus station, and therefore TGV and most other long-distance trains only serve the nearby .

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The Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans is a museum in the city of Orléans in the department and the region in France. Founded in 1797, it is one of France's oldest provincial museums.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle and Fleury-les-Aubrais.

Town
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is a commune in the department in the administrative region of , . It is located about 3.5 km from Orléans.

Town
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is a commune in the department, , . It is a northern suburb of Orléans. As a part of German-occupied France, its railway station was destroyed in 1944 by the Combined Bomber Offensive.

Village
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is a commune in the department in north-central .

Orléans

Latitude
47.9027° or 47° 54′ 10″ north
Longitude
1.9086° or 1° 54′ 31″ east
Population
117,000
Elevation
115 metres (377 feet)
IATA airport code
ORE
United Nations Location Code
FR ORR
Open location code
8FV3WW35+3C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26686508
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2989317
Wiki­data ID
Q6548
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Orléans” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Orleans”
  • Afrikaans: “Orléans”
  • Arabic: “أرليانش”
  • Arabic: “أورليان”
  • Arabic: “أورلينز”
  • Arabic: “أورليون”
  • Aragonese: “Orléans”
  • Armenian: “Օռլեան”
  • Arpitan: “Orlèans”
  • Asturian: “Orléans”
  • Aymara: “Orleans”
  • Azerbaijani: “Orlean”
  • Balinese: “Orléans”
  • Bambara: “Orléans”
  • Basque: “Orleans”
  • Basque: “Orléans”
  • Bavarian: “Orléans”
  • Belarusian: “Арлеан”
  • Bengali: “অর্লেয়ঁ”
  • Breton: “Orleañs”
  • Bulgarian: “Орлеан”
  • Burmese: “အော်ရ်လေအံမြို့”
  • Burmese: “အော်လီယန်းမြို့”
  • Cajun French: “Orléans”
  • Catalan: “Orleans”
  • Cebuano: “Orléans”
  • Chechen: “ОгӀлеан”
  • Chinese: “Orléans”
  • Chinese: “奥尔良”
  • Chinese: “奧爾良”
  • Chuvash: “Орлеан”
  • Corsican: “Orleans”
  • Corsican: “Orléans”
  • Croatian: “Orléans”
  • Czech: “Orléans”
  • Dagbani: “Orléans”
  • Danish: “Orléans”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Orléans”
  • Dutch: “Orleans”
  • Dutch: “Orléans”
  • Eastern Mari: “Орлеан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اورليان”
  • Esperanto: “Orleano”
  • Esperanto: “Orléans”
  • Estonian: “Orléans”
  • Faroese: “Orléans”
  • Finnish: “Orléans”
  • French: “Cenabum”
  • French: “civitas Aurelianensis”
  • French: “civitas Aurelianorum”
  • French: “Genabum”
  • French: “Orelianum”
  • French: “Orléans”
  • French: “Orliens”
  • Friulian: “Orléans”
  • Galician: “Orleáns”
  • Galician: “Orléans”
  • Georgian: “ორლეანი”
  • German: “Cenabum”
  • German: “civitas Aurelianensis”
  • German: “civitas Aurelianorum”
  • German: “Genabum”
  • German: “Orelianum”
  • German: “Orleans”
  • German: “Orléans”
  • German: “Orliens”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌻𐌴𐌰𐌽𐍃”
  • Greek: “Ορλεάνη”
  • Gujarati: “ઓર્લીંસ”
  • Haitian: “Òleyan”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Orléans”
  • Hausa: “Orléans”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻOlina”
  • Hebrew: “אורליאן”
  • Hindi: “ऑरलियन्स”
  • Hindi: “ऒर्ल्योन”
  • Hungarian: “Orléans”
  • Icelandic: “Orléans”
  • Ido: “Orléans, Francia”
  • Ido: “Orléans”
  • Indonesian: “Orléans”
  • Interlingua: “Orléans”
  • Interlingue: “Orléans”
  • Irish: “Orléans”
  • Italian: “Orleans”
  • Italian: “Orléans”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Orléans”
  • Japanese: “オルレアン”
  • Kabyle: “Orléans”
  • Kalaallisut: “Orléans”
  • Kannada: “ಒರಲೆಯನ್ಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಒರ್ಲ್ಯೋನ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Орлеан”
  • Kongo: “Orléans”
  • Korean: “오를레앙”
  • Kurdish: “Orléans”
  • Ladin: “Orléans”
  • Latin: “Aurelianum”
  • Latin: “Aurilianis”
  • Latin: “Aurilianum”
  • Latin: “Aurilianus”
  • Latin: “Aurilium”
  • Latin: “Autriculum”
  • Latin: “Autrilium”
  • Latin: “Cenabum”
  • Latin: “Genabum”
  • Latin: “Orelianum”
  • Latin: “Orléans”
  • Latin: “Orliens”
  • Latvian: “Orleāna”
  • Ligurian: “Orléans”
  • Limburgan: “Orléans”
  • Lithuanian: “Orleanas”
  • Low German: “Orléans”
  • Luxembourgish: “Orléans”
  • Macedonian: “Орлеан”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Orléans”
  • Malagasy: “Orléans”
  • Malay: “Orleans”
  • Malay: “Orléans”
  • Maltese: “Orléans”
  • Marathi: “ओर्लेयों”
  • Mazanderani: “اورلئان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Orléans”
  • Minangkabau: “Orléans”
  • Moksha: “Орлэан”
  • Narom: “Orléauns”
  • Narom: “Orliauns”
  • Neapolitan: “Orléans”
  • Northern Frisian: “Orléans”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Orléans”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orléans”
  • Norwegian: “Orléans”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Orleans”
  • Ossetian: “Орлеан”
  • Papiamento: “Orléans”
  • Persian: “اورلئان”
  • Picard: “Orléans”
  • Piemontese: “Orléans”
  • Polish: “Orlean”
  • Portuguese: “Orleães”
  • Portuguese: “Orleans”
  • Portuguese: “Orléans”
  • Prussian: “Orléans”
  • Romagnol: “Orléans”
  • Romanian: “Orléans”
  • Romansh: “Orléans”
  • Russian: “Орлеан”
  • Sardinian: “Orléans”
  • Scots: “Orléans”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Orléans”
  • Serbian: “Orléans”
  • Serbian: “Орлеан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Orléans”
  • Sicilian: “Orléans”
  • Sinhala: “ඔර්ලියන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Orléans”
  • Slovenian: “Orléans”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اورلئان”
  • Spanish: “Cenabum”
  • Spanish: “civitas Aurelianensis”
  • Spanish: “civitas Aurelianorum”
  • Spanish: “Genabum”
  • Spanish: “Orelianum”
  • Spanish: “Orleans”
  • Spanish: “Orleáns”
  • Spanish: “Orliens”
  • Swahili: “Orléans”
  • Swedish: “Orléans”
  • Swiss German: “Orléans”
  • Tamil: “ஆர்லியன்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “ஒர்லின்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Орлеан”
  • Telugu: “ఓర్లేయన్స్”
  • Thai: “ออร์เลอ็อง”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Orléans”
  • Turkish: “Orléans”
  • Twi: “Orléans”
  • Ukrainian: “Орлеан”
  • Urdu: “اوغلیوں”
  • Uzbek: “Orléans”
  • Venetian: “Orliens”
  • Vietnamese: “Orléans”
  • Vlaams: “Orléans”
  • Volapük: “Orléans”
  • Walloon: “Orléans”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Orléans”
  • Welsh: “Orléans”
  • Western Frisian: “Orléans”
  • Western Panjabi: “اورلینز”
  • Wolof: “Orléans”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥尔良”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧爾良”
  • Zeeuws: “Orléans”
  • Zulu: “Orléans”
  • “Orléans”

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