Île-de-France
Yvelines
Arrondissement of Versailles

Versailles

Versailles is a city on the western edge of the capital city , now part of the sprawling metropolis within the Ile de France region. Versailles is best known for being the site of the vast royal palace and gardens built by King Louis XIV on what had been the grounds of a royal hunting lodge.
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  • Type: Town with 83,600 residents
  • Description: French city and commune in Yvelines, in Île-de-France
  • Also known as: “Berceau-de-la-Liberté” and “Versailles, Yvelines”
  • Postal codes: 78000 and 78000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Salle du Jeu de Paume and Versailles Château Rive Gauche station.

Museum
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is a museum.

Railway station
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is a serving the city of Versailles, a wealthy suburb located west of Paris, France. The station is the closest to the .

Railway station
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is the principal railway station serving the city of Versailles, a wealthy suburb located west of , France. The station is located at the junction of the Paris–Brest railway and the Grande Ceinture line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Le Chesnay and Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt.

Suburb
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is a former commune in the department in the region in north-central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune .

Town
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is a commune in the western suburbs of , in the department of . It was established on 1 January 2019 from the amalgamation of the communes of and Rocquencourt.

Town
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is a commune in the department in the in north-central . It is located in the south-western suburbs of 14.1 km from the center and 3 km from the . is situated 3½ km east of Versailles.

Versailles

Latitude
48.8035° or 48° 48′ 13″ north
Longitude
2.1267° or 2° 7′ 36″ east
Population
83,600
Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“Berceau-de-la-Liberté”
IATA airport code
XVE
United Nations Location Code
FR VER
Open location code
8FW4R43G+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26692491
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2969679
Wiki­data ID
Q621
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Versailles” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Versailles”
  • Albanian: “Versailles”
  • Arabic: “فرساي”
  • Arabic: “فيرساي”
  • Aragonese: “Versailles”
  • Armenian: “Վերսալ”
  • Arpitan: “Versailles”
  • Asturian: “Versalles”
  • Aymara: “Versailles”
  • Azerbaijani: “Versal”
  • Bambara: “Versailles”
  • Bashkir: “Версаль (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Версаль”
  • Basque: “Versailles”
  • Bavarian: “Versailles”
  • Belarusian: “Версаль”
  • Belarusian: “Вэрсаль (места)”
  • Belarusian: “Вэрсаль (Францыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Вэрсаль”
  • Bengali: “ভের্সাই”
  • Bosnian: “Versailles”
  • Breton: “Versailhez”
  • Bulgarian: “Версай”
  • Cajun French: “Versailles”
  • Catalan: “Versalles”
  • Cebuano: “Versailles”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤێرسای”
  • Chechen: “ВегӀсаль”
  • Chinese: “Versailles”
  • Chinese: “凡尔赛”
  • Chinese: “凡爾賽”
  • Chinese: “凡爾賽市”
  • Chuvash: “Версаль (хула)”
  • Chuvash: “Версаль”
  • Corsican: “Versaglia”
  • Corsican: “Versailles”
  • Croatian: “Versailles”
  • Czech: “Versailles”
  • Dagbani: “Versailles”
  • Danish: “Versailles”
  • Dutch: “Versailles”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فرساى”
  • Esperanto: “Versailles”
  • Esperanto: “Versajlo”
  • Estonian: “Versailles”
  • Faroese: “Versailles”
  • Finnish: “Versailles”
  • French: “Berceau-de-la-Liberté”
  • French: “la Cité royale”
  • French: “Versailles”
  • Friulian: “Versailles”
  • Galician: “Versailles”
  • Galician: “Versalles”
  • Georgian: “ვერსალი”
  • German: “Versailles”
  • Greek: “Βερσάιγ”
  • Greek: “Βερσαλλίες”
  • Hebrew: “ורסאי”
  • Hindi: “वर्साइ”
  • Hindi: “वर्साय”
  • Hungarian: “Versailles”
  • Icelandic: “Versalir”
  • Ido: “Versailles”
  • Indonesian: “Versailles”
  • Interlingua: “Versailles”
  • Interlingue: “Versailles”
  • Irish: “Versailles, Yvelines”
  • Irish: “Versailles”
  • Italian: “Versaglia”
  • Italian: “Versailles”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Versai”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Versailles”
  • Japanese: “ヴェルサイユ”
  • Kabyle: “Versailles”
  • Kalaallisut: “Versailles”
  • Kannada: “ವರ್ಸೈಲ್ಸ್”
  • Kashubian: “Wersal”
  • Kazakh: “Версаль”
  • Kirghiz: “Версаль”
  • Kongo: “Versailles”
  • Korean: “베르사유”
  • Kotava: “Versailles”
  • Kurdish: “Versailles”
  • Kurdish: “Versay”
  • Ladin: “Versailles”
  • Latin: “Versalia”
  • Latin: “Versaliae”
  • Latvian: “Versaļa”
  • Ligurian: “Versagge”
  • Limburgan: “Versailles”
  • Lithuanian: “Versalis”
  • Low German: “Versailles”
  • Luxembourgish: “Versailles”
  • Macedonian: “Версај”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Versailles”
  • Malagasy: “Versailles”
  • Malay: “Versailles”
  • Maltese: “Versailles”
  • Marathi: “व्हर्साय”
  • Mazanderani: “ورسای”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Versailles”
  • Minangkabau: “Versailles”
  • Moksha: “Вэрсаль”
  • Narom: “Versailles”
  • Neapolitan: “Versailles”
  • Nepali: “भर्सालिज”
  • Northern Frisian: “Versailles”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Versailles”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Versailles”
  • Norwegian: “Versailles”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Versalhas”
  • Ossetian: “Версаль”
  • Papiamento: “Versailles”
  • Persian: “ورسای”
  • Picard: “Versailles”
  • Piemontese: “Versailles”
  • Polish: “Wersal”
  • Portuguese: “Versailles”
  • Portuguese: “Versalhes”
  • Prussian: “Versailles”
  • Pushto: “وارسای”
  • Romagnol: “Versailles”
  • Romanian: “Versailles”
  • Romansh: “Versailles”
  • Russia Buriat: “Версаль”
  • Russian: “Версаль”
  • Samogitian: “Versalis”
  • Sardinian: “Versailles”
  • Scots: “Versailles”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Versailles”
  • Serbian: “Versailles”
  • Serbian: “Версај”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Versailles”
  • Sicilian: “Versailles”
  • Silesian: “Versailles”
  • Slovak: “Versailles”
  • Slovenian: “Versailles”
  • Somali: “Versailles”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ورسای”
  • Spanish: “Versalles”
  • Swahili: “Versailles”
  • Swedish: “Versailles”
  • Swiss German: “Versailles”
  • Tajik: “Версал”
  • Talysh: “Versal”
  • Tamil: “வெர்செயில்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Версаль”
  • Thai: “แวร์ซาย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Versailles”
  • Turkish: “Versailles”
  • Turkish: “Versay”
  • Uighur: “Wérsayl”
  • Ukrainian: “Версаль”
  • Urdu: “ویغسای، ایولین”
  • Uzbek: “Versal”
  • Venetian: “Versailles”
  • Vietnamese: “Versailles”
  • Vlaams: “Versailles”
  • Volapük: “Versailles”
  • Walloon: “Versailles”
  • Walloon: “Versaye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Versailles, Yvelines”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Versailles”
  • Welsh: “Versailles”
  • Western Armenian: “Վերսայ”
  • Wolof: “Versailles”
  • Wu Chinese: “凡尔赛”
  • Yiddish: “ווערסיי”
  • Yue Chinese: “凡爾賽”
  • Zulu: “Versailles”
  • “Versailles”
  • “Versalis”

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