Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Dordogne
Arrondissement of Périgueux

Périgueux

Périgueux is a commune in the department, in the administrative region of , southwestern France. Périgueux is the prefecture of , and the capital city of Périgord. It is also the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese.
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  • Type: Town with 29,500 residents
  • Description: French commune in Dordogne, New Aquitaine
  • Also known as: “Périguex”
  • Postal codes: 24000 and 24000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Périgueux station and Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum.

Railway station
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The Gare de Périgueux is the railway station in the town of Périgueux, in the department in . The station opened in 1857 and is located on the Limoges-Bénédictins - Périgueux and Coutras - Tulle railway lines.

Museum
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The is a museum of Gallo-Roman art and archaeology in the town of Périgueux, located in the French department of the .

Museum
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The , often abbreviated MAAP, is a municipal museum located in Périgueux. It is the oldest museum in the and it includes over 2,000 square metres of permanent exhibition.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Coulounieix-Chamiers and Boulazac-Isle-Manoire.

Village
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is a commune in the department in in southwestern . It is a suburb of Périgueux.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 3½ km east of Périgueux.

Périgueux

Latitude
45.184° or 45° 11′ 3″ north
Longitude
0.716° or 0° 42′ 58″ east
Population
29,500
Elevation
101 metres (331 feet)
IATA airport code
PGX
United Nations Location Code
FR PGX
Open location code
8FQ25PM8+JC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 285986881
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2987967
Wiki­data ID
Q6588
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Périgueux” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Périgueux”
  • Arabic: “بيريغو”
  • Aragonese: “Peireguers”
  • Aragonese: “Périgueux”
  • Armenian: “Պերիգյո”
  • Arpitan: “Périgueux”
  • Asturian: “Périgueux”
  • Azerbaijani: “Periqe”
  • Bambara: “Périgueux”
  • Basque: “Périgueux”
  • Bavarian: “Périgueux”
  • Belarusian: “Перыгё”
  • Belarusian: “Пэрыгё”
  • Bengali: “পেরিগো”
  • Breton: “Periguers”
  • Buginese: “Périgueux”
  • Cajun French: “Périgueux”
  • Catalan: “Perigús”
  • Cebuano: “Périgueux”
  • Chechen: “ПегӀиге”
  • Chinese: “Périgueux”
  • Chinese: “佩里格”
  • Chinese: “皮里格”
  • Chuvash: “Перигё”
  • Corsican: “Périgueux”
  • Croatian: “Périgueux”
  • Czech: “Périgueux”
  • Dagbani: “Périgueux”
  • Danish: “Périgueux”
  • Dutch: “Perigueux”
  • Dutch: “Périgueux”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيريجو”
  • Esperanto: “Périgueux”
  • Estonian: “Périgueux”
  • Faroese: “Périgueux”
  • Finnish: “Périgueux”
  • French: “Périgueux”
  • Friulian: “Périgueux”
  • Galician: “Périgueux”
  • Georgian: “პერიგე”
  • German: “Périgueux”
  • Greek: “Περιγκέ”
  • Hebrew: “פריגו”
  • Hungarian: “Périgueux”
  • Icelandic: “Périgueux”
  • Ido: “Périgueux”
  • Indonesian: “Périgueux”
  • Interlingua: “Périgueux”
  • Interlingue: “Périgueux”
  • Irish: “Périgueux”
  • Italian: “Périgueux”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Périgueux”
  • Japanese: “ペリグー”
  • Javanese: “Périgueux”
  • Kabyle: “Périgueux”
  • Kalaallisut: “Périgueux”
  • Kazakh: “Периге”
  • Kongo: “Périgueux”
  • Korean: “페리괴”
  • Kurdish: “Périgueux”
  • Ladin: “Périgueux”
  • Latin: “Petrocorium”
  • Latvian: “Perigē”
  • Ligurian: “Périgueux”
  • Limburgan: “Périgueux”
  • Lithuanian: “Perigė”
  • Low German: “Périgueux”
  • Luxembourgish: “Périgueux”
  • Macedonian: “Периге”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Périgueux”
  • Malagasy: “Périgueux”
  • Malay: “Périgueux”
  • Mazanderani: “پریگو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Périgueux”
  • Minangkabau: “Périgueux”
  • Narom: “Périgueux”
  • Neapolitan: “Périgueux”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Périgueux”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Périgueux”
  • Norwegian: “Périgueux”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Periguers”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Perigüers”
  • Ossetian: “Перигё”
  • Papiamento: “Périgueux”
  • Persian: “پریگو”
  • Persian: “پِریگو”
  • Picard: “Périgueux”
  • Piemontese: “Périgueux”
  • Polish: “Périgueux”
  • Portuguese: “Périgueux”
  • Prussian: “Périgueux”
  • Romagnol: “Périgueux”
  • Romanian: “Périgueux”
  • Romansh: “Périgueux”
  • Russian: “Периге”
  • Russian: “Перигё”
  • Sardinian: “Périgueux”
  • Scots: “Périgueux”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Périgueux”
  • Serbian: “Périgueux”
  • Serbian: “Периге”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Périgueux”
  • Sicilian: “Périgueux”
  • Slovak: “Périgueux”
  • Slovenian: “Périgueux”
  • Spanish: “Perigueux”
  • Spanish: “Périgueux”
  • Swahili: “Périgueux”
  • Swedish: “Périgueux”
  • Swiss German: “Périgueux”
  • Tagalog: “Périgueux”
  • Tatar: “Периге”
  • Thai: “เปรีเกอ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Périgueux”
  • Tumbuka: “Périgueux”
  • Turkish: “Périgueux”
  • Ukrainian: “Периге”
  • Ukrainian: “Періге”
  • Urdu: “پریگو”
  • Uzbek: “Périgueux”
  • Venetian: “Périgueux”
  • Vietnamese: “Périgueux”
  • Vlaams: “Périgueux”
  • Volapük: “Périgueux”
  • Walloon: “Périgueux”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Périgueux”
  • Welsh: “Périgueux”
  • Western Armenian: “Փերիկէօ”
  • Wolof: “Périgueux”
  • Wu Chinese: “佩里格”
  • Yue Chinese: “皮里格”
  • Zulu: “Périgueux”
  • “Périgueux”

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