Lyon
Lyon is the capital of the French administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. A city of half a million, Lyon alone is the country's third-largest city, but its metropolitan area is only second in population to Paris.Photo: Otourly, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 501,000 residents
- Description: commune in the metropolis of Lyon, France
- Postal codes: 69000-69002 and 69002-69009
Photo: Elwood j blues, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Rexcornot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
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The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon.
Historic Site of Lyon
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The Vieux Lyon is the largest Renaissance district of Lyon.
Gare de Lyon-Perrache
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Lyon-Perrache is a large railway station located in the Perrache district, in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France.
Localities in the Area
3rd arrondissement of Lyon
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The 3rd arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.
7th Arrondissement
The 7th arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.6th Arrondissement
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The 6th arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.
Lyon
- Categories: commune of France, commune of France with specific status, big city, college town and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Lyon, Greater Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude
45.7578° or 45° 45' 28" northLongitude
4.832° or 4° 49' 55" eastPopulation
501,000Elevation
173 metres (568 feet)IATA airport code
LYSUnited Nations Location Code
FR LIOOpen Location Code
8FQ6QR5J+4ROpenStreetMap ID
node 20626319OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2996944Wikidata ID
Q456Lyon Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Lyon
- Afar: Lyon
- Afrikaans: Lyon
- Akan: Lyon
- Albanian: Lion
- Amharic: ልዮን
- Arabic: Lyon
- Arabic: ليون
- Aragonese: León d'o Roine
- Aragonese: León do Roine
- Armenian: Լիոն
- Arpitan: Leyon
- Arpitan: Liyon
- Asturian: Lyon
- Aymara: Lyon
- Azerbaijani: Lion
- Balinese: Lyon
- Bambara: Lyon
- Basque: Lyon
- Bavarian: Lyon
- Belarusian: Ліён
- Bengali: লিওঁ
- Bengali: লিয়োঁ
- Bosnian: Lyon
- Breton: Lyon
- Bulgarian: Лион
- Burmese: လီယွန်းမြို့
- Cajun French: Lyon
- Catalan: Lió
- Cebuano: Lyon
- Central Kurdish: لیۆن
- Central Okinawan: りよん
- Chechen: Лион
- Chinese: Lyon
- Chinese: 里昂
- Chuvash: Лион
- Cornish: Lyon
- Corsican: Lyon
- Crimean Tatar: Lion
- Croatian: Lyon
- Czech: Lyon
- Danish: Lyon
- Dimli (individual language): Lyon
- Dutch: Lyon
- Egyptian Arabic: ليون
- English: Commune-Affranchie
- English: Lyon, Rhône
- English: Lyons
- Esperanto: Liono
- Esperanto: Lyon
- Estonian: Lyon
- Extremaduran: Lyon
- Faroese: Lyon
- Finnish: Lyon
- French: Commune-Affranchie
- French: Lyon
- French: capitale des Gaules
- Friulian: Lyon
- Galician: Lión
- Georgian: ლიონი
- German: Leyden
- German: Lion
- German: Lyon
- German: Welsch-Leyden
- Gothic: 𐌻𐌹𐌰𐌿𐌽
- Greek: Λυών
- Guarani: Liõ
- Gujarati: લિયોન
- Haitian: Lyon (vil)
- Haitian: Lyon
- Hakka Chinese: Lyon
- Hausa: Lyon
- Hebrew: ליון
- Hindi: ल्यों
- Hungarian: Lyon
- Icelandic: Lyon
- Ido: Lyon
- Indonesian: Lyon
- Interlingua: Lyon
- Interlingue: Lyon
- Irish: Lyon
- Italian: Lione
- Jamaican Creole English: Lyon
- Japanese: リヨン
- Javanese: Lyon
- Kabyle: Lyon
- Kalaallisut: Lyon
- Kannada: ಲಿಯೋನ್
- Kannada: ಲ್ಯೊ
- Kara-Kalpak: Lyon
- Kazakh: Лион
- Kirghiz: Лион
- Kongo: Lyon
- Korean: 리옹
- Kurdish: Liyon
- Ladin: Lyon
- Ladino: Lyon
- Latin: Lugdunum
- Latvian: Liona
- Ligurian: Lion
- Limburgan: Lyon
- Lingala: Lyon
- Lithuanian: Lionas
- Lojban: lion
- Lombard: Liun
- Low German: Lyon
- Luxembourgish: Lyon
- Macedo-Romanian: Lyon
- Macedonian: Лион
- Mainfränkisch: Lyon
- Malagasy: Lyon
- Malay: Lyon
- Malayalam: ലിയോൺ
- Maltese: Lyon
- Manx: Lyon
- Manx: Lyons
- Maori: Lyon
- Marathi: ल्यों
- Mazanderani: لیون
- Min Nan Chinese: Lyon
- Minangkabau: Lyon
- Mingrelian: ლიონი
- Mongolian: Лион
- Narom: Lyon
- Neapolitan: Lione
- Nepali: लियोन
- Newari: लियोन
- Northern Frisian: Lyon
- Norwegian: Lyon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lyon
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Lyon
- Occitan (post 1500): Lion
- Oriya: ଲିଓନ
- Oromo: Liyoon
- Ossetian: Лион
- Panjabi: ਲਿਓਂ
- Papiamento: Lyon
- Persian: لیون
- Picard: Lyon
- Piemontese: Lion
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Lioen
- Polish: Lyon
- Pontic: Λιόν
- Pontic: Λυών
- Portuguese: Lion
- Portuguese: Lião
- Portuguese: Lyon
- Portuguese: Lyons
- Prussian: Lyon
- Quechua: Lyon
- Romagnol: Lyon
- Romanian: Lyon
- Romansh: Lyon
- Russian: Лион
- Sardinian: Lione
- Saterfriesisch: Liyon
- Saterfriesisch: Lyon
- Scots: Lyon
- Scottish Gaelic: Lyon
- Serbian: Lyon
- Serbian: Лион
- Serbo-Croatian: Lyon
- Sicilian: Lioni
- Silesian: Lyon
- Sinhala: ලියොන්
- Slovak: Lyon
- Slovenian: Lyon
- Somali: Lyon
- South Azerbaijani: لیون
- Spanish: Lyon
- Swahili: Lyon
- Swedish: Lyon
- Swiss German: Lyon
- Tachawit: Lion
- Tagalog: Lyon
- Tahitian: Lyon
- Tajik: Лион
- Talysh: Lion
- Tamil: லியோன்
- Tatar: Лион
- Tatar: Лиоң
- Telugu: లియాన్
- Thai: ลียง
- Tibetan: ལི་ཡོང་།
- Tok Pisin: Lyon
- Tosk Albanian: Lyon
- Tumbuka: Lyon
- Turkish: Lyon
- Turkmen: Lyon
- Twi: Lyon
- Uighur: Lion
- Ukrainian: Ліон
- Urdu: لیون
- Urdu: لیوں
- Uzbek: Lion
- Venetian: Lion
- Veps: Lion
- Vietnamese: Lyon
- Vlaams: Lyon
- Vlax Romani: Lyon
- Volapük: Lyon
- Walloon: Lyon
- Waray (Philippines): Lyon
- Welsh: Lyon
- Western Armenian: Լիոն
- Western Frisian: Lyon
- Western Panjabi: لیون
- Wolof: Lyon
- Wu Chinese: 里昂
- Yiddish: ליאן
- Yue Chinese: 里昂
- Zeeuws: Lyon
- Zulu: Lyon
- Liòṅ
Other Places Named Lyon
In the Area
- Saint-Georges Neighbourhood in LyonNeighbourhood
- Saint-Jean Neighbourhood in LyonNeighbourhood
- Vieux LyonSuburb
- CordeliersSuburb
- ChinatownNeighbourhood
- 2nd ArrondissementSuburb
Popular Destinations in Greater Lyon
Escape to a Random Place
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