Besançon
Besançon is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerland.Photo: Ludo29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 128,000 residents
- Description: commune in Doubs, France
- Postal codes: 25000 and 25000
Notable Places in the Area
Synagogue of Besançon
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The Synagogue of Besançon is the principal Jewish place of worship in the city of Besançon, France.
Citadel of Besançon
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The Citadel of Besançon is a 17th-century fortress in Franche-Comté, France.
Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon
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The musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie in the French city of Besançon is the oldest public museum in France.
Localities in the Area
Morre
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Morre is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
Beure
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Beure is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
Battant
Battant is one of the oldest parts of Besançon, Doubs, France, and has been under architectural protection since 1964.Besançon
- Categories: commune of France, big city and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Besançon, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
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Latitude
47.238° or 47° 14' 17" northLongitude
6.0244° or 6° 1' 28" eastPopulation
128,000Elevation
300 metres (984 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR BSNOpen Location Code
8FV862QF+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 26686554OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3033123Wikidata ID
Q37776Besançon Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Besancon
- Afrikaans: Besançon
- Albanian: Besançon
- Albanian: Bezansoni
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Bisontion
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Chrysopolis
- Arabic: Besançon
- Arabic: بيزنسون
- Arabic: بِزَنصة
- Arabic: بِزَنصُون
- Aragonese: Besançon
- Armenian: Բեզանսոն
- Arpitan: Besançon
- Arpitan: Besençon
- Asturian: Besançon
- Avaric: Besançon
- Aymara: Besançon
- Azerbaijani: Bezanson
- Bambara: Besançon
- Bashkir: Безансон
- Basque: Besancon
- Basque: Besançon
- Bavarian: Besançon
- Belarusian: Безансон
- Belarusian: Бэзансон
- Bengali: ব্যজঁসোঁ
- Breton: Besançon
- Breton: Bezañsoñ
- Buginese: Besançon
- Bulgarian: Безансон
- Cajun French: Besançon
- Catalan: Besançon
- Catalan: Vesontio
- Cebuano: Besançon
- Chechen: Безансон
- Chinese: Besançon
- Chinese: Bèisāngsōng
- Chinese: 貝桑松
- Chinese: 贝桑松
- Chuvash: Безансон
- Corsican: Besançon
- Crimean Tatar: Bezanson
- Croatian: Besancon
- Croatian: Besançon
- Czech: Besancon
- Czech: Besançon
- Danish: Besancon
- Danish: Besançon
- Dimli (individual language): Besançon
- Dutch: Besancon
- Dutch: Besançon
- Dutch: Bisanz
- Egyptian Arabic: بيزنسون
- English: Besac
- Esperanto: Besancon
- Esperanto: Besançon
- Esperanto: Bezansono
- Estonian: Besancon
- Estonian: Besançon
- Estonian: Vesontio
- Extremaduran: Besançon
- Faroese: Besançon
- Finnish: Besancon
- Finnish: Besançon
- French: Besac
- French: Besançon
- Friulian: Besançon
- Galician: Besançon
- Georgian: ბეზანსონი
- Georgian: ევროპული მარშრუტი E60
- German: Besancon
- German: Besançon
- German: Bisanz
- Greek: Μπεζανσόν
- Gujarati: બેસંકોન
- Hakka Chinese: Besançon
- Hausa: Besançon
- Hebrew: באזנסון
- Hebrew: בזאנסון
- Hebrew: בזנסון
- Hindi: बेज़ाँसुं/बेज़ानशूं
- Hungarian: Besancon
- Hungarian: Besançon
- Hungarian: Besontio
- Icelandic: Besançon
- Ido: Besançon
- Indonesian: Besancon
- Indonesian: Besançon
- Indonesian: Bisanz
- Interlingua: Besançon
- Interlingue: Besançon
- Irish: Besançon
- Italian: Besancon
- Italian: Besanzone
- Italian: Besançon
- Italian: Vesontio
- Jamaican Creole English: Besançon
- Japanese: ブザンソン
- Japanese: ローズモン
- Kabyle: Besançon
- Kalaallisut: Besançon
- Kannada: ಬೆಸಂಕೋನ್
- Kongo: Besançon
- Korean: 브장송
- Kotava: Besançon
- Kurdish: Besançon
- Kurdish: Bezanson
- Ladin: Besançon
- Latgalian: Bezansona
- Latin: Besontio
- Latin: Bysantium
- Latin: Civitas Vesontiensium
- Latin: Vesontio
- Latin: Vesuntio
- Latvian: Besancon
- Latvian: Besançon
- Latvian: Bezansona
- Ligurian: Besançon
- Limburgan: Besançon
- Lingala: Besançon
- Lithuanian: Besançon
- Lithuanian: Bezansonas
- Lombard: Besançon
- Low German: Besançon
- Luxembourgish: Besançon
- Macedo-Romanian: Besançon
- Macedonian: Bezanson
- Macedonian: Безансон
- Mainfränkisch: Besançon
- Malagasy: Besançon
- Malay: Besancon
- Malay: Besançon
- Maltese: Besancon
- Maltese: Besançon
- Marathi: बेझाँसों
- Mazanderani: بزانسون
- Min Nan Chinese: Besançon
- Minangkabau: Besançon
- Moksha: Бэзансон
- Narom: Besançon
- Narom: Besaunçoun
- Neapolitan: Besançon
- Northern Frisian: Besançon
- Norwegian: Besançon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Besancon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Besançon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Besancon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Besançon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Bisanz
- Occitan (post 1500): Besançon
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Bysincun
- Ossetian: Безансон
- Papiamento: Besançon
- Persian: بزانسون
- Picard: Besançon
- Picard: Bzanchon
- Piemontese: Besançon
- Polish: Besancon
- Polish: Besançon
- Portuguese: Besançon
- Portuguese: Besanção
- Portuguese: Vesanção
- Portuguese: Vesontio
- Prussian: Besançon
- Quechua: Besançon
- Romagnol: Besançon
- Romanian: Besancon
- Romanian: Besançon
- Romansh: Besançon
- Russian: Besançon
- Russian: Безансон
- Sardinian: Besançon
- Scots: Besançon
- Scottish Gaelic: Besançon
- Serbian: Besançon
- Serbian: Bezanson
- Serbian: Безансон
- Serbian: Бесансон
- Serbo-Croatian: Besançon
- Serbo-Croatian: Bezanson
- Sicilian: Besançon
- Silesian: Besançon
- Sinhala: බෙසන්කොන්
- Slovak: Besançon
- Slovenian: Besancon
- Slovenian: Besançon
- South Azerbaijani: بزانسون
- Spanish: Besanzon
- Spanish: Besanzón
- Spanish: Besançon
- Spanish: Bessançon
- Swahili: Besancon
- Swahili: Besançon
- Swedish: Besancon
- Swedish: Besançon
- Swiss German: Besançon
- Tajik: Безансон
- Tamil: பிசானகாண்
- Tatar: Безансон
- Telugu: బెజాసుం
- Thai: Besancon
- Thai: Besançon
- Thai: Vesontio
- Thai: เบอซองซง
- Thai: เบอซ็องซง
- Tibetan: Besançon
- Tosk Albanian: Besançon
- Turkish: Besançon
- Turkish: Bezanson
- Twi: Besançon
- Ukrainian: Безансон
- Urdu: بیزانسون
- Uzbek: Besançon
- Venetian: Besanzon
- Venetian: Besançon
- Veps: Bezanson
- Vietnamese: Besancon
- Vietnamese: Besançon
- Vlaams: Besançon
- Volapük: Besançon
- Walloon: Besançon
- Waray (Philippines): Besançon
- Welsh: Besancon
- Welsh: Besançon
- Western Frisian: Besançon
- Western Panjabi: بیسانکاں
- Wolof: Besançon
- Wu Chinese: 贝桑松
- Yiddish: בעזאנסאן
- Yue Chinese: 貝桑松
- Zeeuws: Besançon
- Zulu: Besançon
- Becoinson
- बेसनकॉन
Other Places Named Besançon
Localities in the Area
- Saint-JeanQuarter
- La Gare d'EauNeighbourhood
- A CanotNeighbourhood
- La ButteHamlet
- Les ChapraisSuburb
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