Versailles
Versailles is a city on the western edge of the French capital city Paris, 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.Photo: ToucanWings, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 85,400 residents
- Description: French commune in Yvelines, Île-de-France
- Postal codes: 78000 and 78000
Notable Places in the Area
Versailles-Chantiers station
Photo: Eole99, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Versailles–Chantiers is the principal railway station serving the city of Versailles.
Versailles-Château-Rive Gauche station
Photo: Remontees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Versailles-Château–Rive Gauche is a station on line C of the Paris Region's express suburban rail system, the RER.
Localities in the Area
Le Chesnay
Photo: Henrysalome, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Le Chesnay is a former commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Viroflay
Photo: Henrysalome, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Viroflay is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. Viroflay is situated 3½ km east of Versailles.
Hameau de la Reine
Photo: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hameau de la Reine is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for Marie Antoinette in 1783 near the Petit Trianon in Yvelines, France.
Versailles
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Versailles, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.8035° or 48° 48' 13" northLongitude
2.1267° or 2° 7' 36" eastPopulation
85,400Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)Name during the French Revolution
Berceau-de-la-LibertéIATA airport code
XVEUnited Nations Location Code
FR VEROpen Location Code
8FW4R43G+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 26692491OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2969679Wikidata ID
Q621Versailles Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Versailles
- Albanian: Versailles
- Arabic: Versailles, Yvelines
- Arabic: فرساي
- 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 (Францыя)
- Belarusian: Вэрсаль (места)
- 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: Versailles
- Croatian: Versailles
- Czech: Versailles
- Danish: Versailles
- Dutch: Versailles
- Egyptian Arabic: فرساى
- English: Berceau-de-la-Liberté
- English: Versailles, Yvelines
- Esperanto: Versailles
- Esperanto: Versajlo
- Estonian: Versailles
- Faroese: Versailles
- Finnish: Versailles
- French: Berceau-de-la-Liberté
- French: Versailles
- French: la Cité royale
- Friulian: Versailles
- Galician: Versailles
- Galician: Versalles
- Georgian: ვერსალი
- German: Versailles
- German: Версаль (город)
- Greek: Βερσάιγ
- Greek: Βερσαλλίες
- Hebrew: ורסאי
- Hindi: वर्साइ
- 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
- Kurdish: Versailles (bajar)
- 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
- Narom: Versailles
- Neapolitan: Versailles
- Nepali: भर्सालिज
- Norwegian: Versailles
- Norwegian Bokmål: Versailles
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Versailles
- Occitan (post 1500): Versalhas
- Ossetian: Версаль
- Papiamento: Versailles
- Persian: ورسای
- Picard: Versailles
- Piemontese: Versailles
- Polish: Wersal
- Portuguese: Versailles
- Portuguese: Versalhes
- Prussian: Versailles
- 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
- Tamil: வெர்செயில்ஸ்
- Tatar: Версаль
- Thai: แวร์ซาย
- Turkish: Versailles
- Turkish: Versay
- Uighur: Wérsayl
- Ukrainian: Версаль
- Urdu: ویغسای، ایولین
- Uzbek: Versal
- Venetian: Versailles
- Vietnamese: Versailles
- Vlaams: Versailles
- Volapük: Versailles
- Walloon: Versailles
- Waray (Philippines): Versailles
- Welsh: Versailles
- Western Armenian: Վերսայ
- Wolof: Versailles
- Wu Chinese: 凡尔赛
- Yiddish: ווערסיי
- Yue Chinese: 凡爾賽
- Zulu: Versailles
- वर्साय
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