Lille
Lille is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region in northern France and the core of one of the largest metropolitan agglomerations in the country. Historically, it has also been the capital of Flanders, and later an industrial powerhouse, thanks to which it now boasts a large and handsome historic centre.Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 233,000 residents
- Description: city and commune in Nord, Hauts-de-France, Northern France
- Postal codes: 59000, 59160, 59260, 59777 and 59800
Notable Places in the Area
Gare de Lille Europe
Photo: JÄNNICK Jérémy, Public domain.
Lille-Europe station is a SNCF railway station in Lille, France, on the LGV Nord high-speed railway.
Gare de Lille Flandres
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Lille-Flandres station is the main railway station of Lille, capital of French Flanders.
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille is a municipal museum dedicated to fine arts, modern art, and antiquities located in Lille.
Localities in the Area
La Madeleine
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Madeleine is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It is a suburb of the city of Lille, bordering it on its north side.
Lambersart
Lambersart is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.This commune is located in the Métropole Européenne de Lille, and is a suburb of the city of Lille, bordering it on its northwest side.Mons-en-Barœul
Photo: Tadeo59370, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mons-en-Barœul is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.It is a suburb of the city of Lille, and is adjacent to it on the northeast.
Lille
- Categories: commune of France, big city and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Lille, North, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
50.6366° or 50° 38' 12" northLongitude
3.0635° or 3° 3' 49" eastPopulation
233,000Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)IATA airport code
LILUnited Nations Location Code
FR LLEOpen Location Code
9F25J3P7+JCOpenStreetMap ID
node 26686577OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2998324Wikidata ID
Q648Lille Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Lille
- Afrikaans: Lille
- Afrikaans: Rysel
- Akan: Lille
- Albanian: Lille
- Amharic: ሊል
- Arabic: Lille
- Arabic: ليل
- Aragonese: Lille
- Armenian: Լիլ
- Arpitan: Lila
- Asturian: Lille
- Aymara: Lille
- Azerbaijani: Lil
- Azerbaijani: Lill
- Balinese: Lille
- Bambara: Lille
- Basque: Lille
- Basque: Rijsel
- Bavarian: Lille
- Belarusian: Ліль
- Bengali: লিল
- Breton: Lille
- Breton: Rijsel / Lille
- Bulgarian: Лил
- Cajun French: Lille
- Catalan: Lilla
- Cebuano: Lille
- Central Kurdish: لیل
- Chechen: Лилль
- Chinese: Lille
- Chinese: 里尔
- Chinese: 里爾
- Chinese: 里耳
- Chuvash: Лилль
- Corsican: Lilla
- Croatian: Lille
- Czech: Lille
- Danish: Lille
- Dimli (individual language): Lille
- Dutch: Lile
- Dutch: Lille
- Dutch: Rijsel
- Dutch: Rijssel
- Dutch: Rysel
- Egyptian Arabic: ليل
- English: Lile
- English: Rijsel
- English: Rysel
- Esperanto: Lille
- Esperanto: Lillo
- Esperanto: Lilo
- Esperanto: Rijsel
- Estonian: Lille
- Extremaduran: Lille
- Faroese: Lille
- Finnish: Lille
- French: Lile
- French: Lille
- French: Rijsel
- French: Rysel
- Friulian: Lille
- Galician: Lille
- Georgian: ლილი
- German: Lille
- German: Rijsel
- Gothic: 𐌻𐌹𐌻𐌻𐌴
- Greek: Λίλλη
- Greek: Λιλ
- Gujarati: લીલી
- Haitian: Lil
- Hakka Chinese: Lille
- Hausa: Lille
- Hebrew: ליל
- Hindi: लील
- Hungarian: Lille
- Icelandic: Lille
- Ido: Lille
- Indonesian: Lille
- Interlingua: Lille
- Interlingue: Lille
- Irish: Lille
- Italian: Lilla
- Italian: Lille
- Jamaican Creole English: Lille
- Japanese: リール
- Javanese: Lille
- Kabyle: Lille
- Kalaallisut: Lille
- Kannada: ಲಿಲ್
- Kazakh: Лилль
- Kirghiz: Лилль
- Kongo: Lille
- Korean: 릴
- Kurdish: Lille
- Ladin: Lille
- Ladino: Lila
- Latin: Insula
- Latin: Insulae
- Latvian: Lille
- Ligurian: Lille
- Limburgan: Lille
- Lingala: Lille
- Lithuanian: Lilis
- Lojban: lil.
- Lombard: Lilla
- Low German: Lille
- Luxembourgish: Lille
- Macedonian: Лил
- Mainfränkisch: Lille
- Malagasy: Lille
- Malay: Lille
- Maltese: Lille
- Manx: Lille
- Marathi: लील
- Mazanderani: لیل
- Min Nan Chinese: Lille
- Minangkabau: Lille
- Mingrelian: ლილი
- Narom: Lille
- Neapolitan: Lille
- Nepali: लिल्ले
- Northern Frisian: Lille
- Norwegian: Lille
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lille
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Lille
- Occitan (post 1500): Lilla
- Ossetian: Лилль
- Panjabi: ਲੀਲ
- Papiamento: Lille
- Persian: لیل
- Picard: Lile
- Piemontese: Lille
- Polish: Lille
- Pontic: Λιλ
- Portuguese: Lila
- Portuguese: Lile
- Portuguese: Lille
- Portuguese: Rijsel
- Portuguese: Rysel
- Prussian: Lille
- Quechua: Lille
- Romagnol: Lille
- Romanian: Lille
- Romansh: Lille
- Russian: Лилль
- Sardinian: Lilla
- Sardinian: Lille
- Saterfriesisch: Lille
- Scots: Lille
- Scottish Gaelic: Lille
- Serbian: Lille
- Serbian: Лил
- Serbo-Croatian: Lille
- Sicilian: Lille
- Silesian: Lille
- Sinhala: ලිලේ
- Slovak: Lille
- Slovenian: Lille
- Somali: Lille
- South Azerbaijani: لیل
- Spanish: Lila
- Spanish: Lille
- Spanish: Rijsel
- Swahili: Lille
- Swedish: Lille
- Swiss German: Lille
- Tagalog: Lille
- Tamil: லீல்
- Tatar: Лилль
- Telugu: లీల్
- Thai: ลีล
- Tok Pisin: Lille
- Tosk Albanian: Lille
- Turkish: Lille
- Twi: Lille
- Uighur: Lil
- Ukrainian: Лілль
- Upper Sorbian: Lille
- Urdu: لیل
- Uzbek: Lill
- Venetian: Lille
- Vietnamese: Lille
- Vlaams: Rysel
- Volapük: Lille
- Walloon: Lille
- Waray (Philippines): Lille
- Welsh: Lille
- Western Frisian: Lille
- Western Frisian: Risel
- Western Panjabi: للی
- Wolof: Lille
- Wu Chinese: 里尔
- Yiddish: ליל
- Yoruba: Lille
- Yue Chinese: 里爾
- Zeeuws: Rijsel
- Zulu: Lille
- Lîle
Other Places Named Lille
Localities in the Area
- Lille-CentreSuburb
- Quartier Saint-SauveurQuarter
- EuralilleSuburb
- Porte de TournaiLocality
- Vieux-LilleSuburb
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