Perpignan
Perpignan is the capital of the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, the Northern Catalonia part of France, and about 15 km from the sea. Perpignan is home to about 120,000 people, and has two rivers flowing through it; with the Têt to the north, and the Basse through the centre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 120,000 residents
- Description: French commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitania
- Also known as: “Perpinhan” and “Perpinyà”
- Postal codes: 66000, 66000, and 66100
Places of Interest
Highlights include Perpignan station and Castillet.
Perpignan station
Railway station
Photo: Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Perpignan station is the railway station serving the city of Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitanie, southern France. Part of the station was decorated in the style of Salvador Dalí, for whom the place held special significance, having…
Castillet
Photo: Palauenc05, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Castillet is an ancient fortification and city gate located in Perpignan. Today, this monument, a strong symbol of the city, has become a museum: Museu Català de les Arts i Tradicions Populars.
Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole
Public building
The Perpinyà Metròpolis Mediterrani is the communauté urbaine, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Perpinyà. It is located in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, in the Occitanie region, southern France.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cabestany and Saint-Estève.
Cabestany
Town
Photo: LySioS-wkp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cabestany is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Saint-Estève
Town
Photo: Indif, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Estève is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Perpignan
- Categories: commune of France, big city, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.6985° or 42° 41′ 55″ northLongitude
2.8953° or 2° 53′ 43″ eastPopulation
120,000Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)IATA airport code
PGFUnited Nations Location Code
FR PGFOpen location code
8FJ4MVXW+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1664142674OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2987914Wikidata ID
Q6730
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Perpignan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Perpignan”
- Albanian: “Perpignan”
- Albanian: “Përpinjan”
- Arabic: “بربنية”
- Arabic: “بيربينيا”
- Aragonese: “Perpinyán”
- Armenian: “Պերպինյան”
- Arpitan: “Perpignan”
- Asturian: “Perpignan”
- Asturian: “Perpinyà”
- Aymara: “Perpignan”
- Bambara: “Perpignan”
- Basque: “Perpinyà”
- Bavarian: “Perpignan”
- Belarusian: “Перпіньян”
- Belarusian: “Пэрпіньян”
- Bengali: “পের্পিনিয়ঁ”
- Breton: “Perpinyà”
- Buginese: “Perpignan”
- Bulgarian: “Перпинян”
- Cajun French: “Perpignan”
- Catalan: “Perpignan”
- Catalan: “Perpinyà la Catalana”
- Catalan: “Perpinyà”
- Cebuano: “Perpignan”
- Chechen: “ПегӀпиньен”
- Chinese: “Perpignan”
- Chinese: “佩皮尼昂”
- Chuvash: “Перпиньян”
- Corsican: “Perpignan”
- Croatian: “Perpignan”
- Czech: “Perpignan”
- Danish: “Perpignan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Perpignan”
- Dutch: “Perpignan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيربينيا”
- Esperanto: “Perpinjano”
- Estonian: “Perpignan”
- Extremaduran: “Perpiñán”
- Faroese: “Perpignan”
- Finnish: “Perpignan”
- French: “Perpignan la Catalane”
- French: “Perpignan”
- Friulian: “Perpignan”
- Galician: “Perpignan”
- Galician: “Perpiñán”
- Galician: “Perpinyà”
- Georgian: “პერპიანიანი”
- German: “Perpignan”
- Greek: “Περπινιάν”
- Gujarati: “પેર્પિગ્નન”
- Hebrew: “פרפיניאן”
- Hindi: “पेर्पिञां”
- Hungarian: “Perpignan”
- Icelandic: “Perpignan”
- Ido: “Perpignan”
- Indonesian: “Perpignan”
- Interlingua: “Perpinia”
- Interlingue: “Perpignan”
- Irish: “Perpignan”
- Italian: “Perpignan”
- Italian: “Perpignano”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Perpignan”
- Japanese: “ペルピニャン”
- Kabyle: “Perpignan”
- Kalaallisut: “Perpignan”
- Kannada: “ಪರ್ಪಿಗ್ಯಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Перпиньян”
- Kongo: “Perpignan”
- Korean: “페르피냥”
- Kotava: “Perpignan”
- Ladin: “Perpignan”
- Ladino: “Perpinyán”
- Latin: “Perpinianum”
- Latin: “Villa Perpiniarum”
- Latvian: “Perpiņāna”
- Ligurian: “Perpignan”
- Limburgan: “Perpignan”
- Lingala: “Perpignan”
- Lithuanian: “Perpinjanas”
- Lombard: “Perpignan”
- Low German: “Perpignan”
- Luxembourgish: “Perpignan”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Perpignan”
- Macedonian: “Перпињан”
- Mainfränkisch: “Perpignan”
- Malagasy: “Perpignan”
- Malay: “Perpignan”
- Maltese: “Perpignan”
- Marathi: “पेरिपिगनन”
- Mazanderani: “پرپینان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Perpignan”
- Minangkabau: “Perpignan”
- Narom: “Perpignan”
- Neapolitan: “Perpignan”
- Northern Frisian: “Perpignan”
- Northern Luri: “پرپینان”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Perpignan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Perpignan”
- Norwegian: “Perpignan”
- Novial: “Perpignan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Perpinhan”
- Ossetian: “Перпиньян”
- Papiamento: “Perpignan”
- Persian: “پرپینان”
- Persian: “پرپینیان”
- Picard: “Perpignan”
- Piemontese: “Perpignan”
- Polish: “Perpignan”
- Pontic: “Περπινιάν”
- Portuguese: “Perpinhã”
- Portuguese: “Perpinhão”
- Prussian: “Perpignan”
- Romagnol: “Perpignan”
- Romanian: “Perpignan”
- Romansh: “Perpignan”
- Russian: “Перпиньян”
- Sardinian: “Perpignan”
- Scots: “Perpignan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Perpignan”
- Serbian: “Perpignan”
- Serbian: “Перпињан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Perpignan”
- Sicilian: “Perpignan”
- Silesian: “Perpignan”
- Sinhala: “පර්පිග්නන්”
- Slovak: “Perpignan”
- Slovenian: “Perpignan”
- South Azerbaijani: “پرپینیان”
- Spanish: “Perpignan”
- Spanish: “Perpiñán”
- Spanish: “Perpinya”
- Spanish: “Perpinyà”
- Swahili: “Perpignan”
- Swedish: “Perpignan”
- Swiss German: “Perpignan”
- Tamil: “பெர்பிஞாண்”
- Tatar: “Перпиньян”
- Telugu: “పెర్పిజ్ఞాన్”
- Thai: “ปาร์ปิญญา”
- Thai: “เปร์ปิญญา”
- Thai: “แปร์ปีญ็อง”
- Tosk Albanian: “Perpignan”
- Turkish: “Perpignan”
- Twi: “Perpignan”
- Ukrainian: “Перпіньян”
- Urdu: “پرپینیا”
- Venetian: “Perpignan”
- Vietnamese: “Perpignan”
- Vlaams: “Perpignan”
- Volapük: “Perpignan”
- Walloon: “Perpignan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Perpignan”
- Welsh: “Perpignan”
- Western Panjabi: “پرپگناں”
- Wolof: “Perpignan”
- Wu Chinese: “班合比让”
- Yiddish: “פערפיניאן”
- Yue Chinese: “佩皮尼昂”
- Zulu: “Perpignan”
- “Perpignan”
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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 “Perpignan”. Photo: Christophe Marcheux, CC BY-SA 3.0.