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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › LyonLyon - Wikipedia

    Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), traditionally spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city of France. [e] It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône , to the northwest of the French Alps , 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris , 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille , 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva , 58 km (36 mi ...

  2. fr.wikipedia.org › wiki › LyonLyonWikipédia

    En 2021, Lyon constitue, par sa population, la troisième commune de France avec 522 250 habitants, la ville-centre de la deuxième unité urbaine avec 1 702 921 habitants et de la deuxième aire d'attraction de France avec 2 308 818 habitants.

  3. 6 days ago · Lyon, capital of both the Rhône département and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région, east-central France, set on a hilly site at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers. It is the third largest city in France, after Paris and Marseille. A Roman military colony called Lugdunum was founded there in 43 bce, and it subsequently became the ...

  4. Lyon is a city in the southeast of France. The area has been inhabited since prehistoric times and was one of the most important cities of the Roman Empire, Lugdunum. After the Battle of Lugdunum (197) the city never fully recovered, and Lyon was built out of its ashes becoming a part of the Kingdom of the Burgundians . Antiquity.

  5. www.wikiwand.com › en › LyonLyon - Wikiwand

    Lyon, traditionally spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, 58 km (36 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne.

  6. Lyon (Arpitan: Liyon) is a city in the southeast of France. It is the third-largest city in the country (behind Paris and Marseille), with about 513,000 people living there in 2015. It is the second largest metropolis, or metro area, in France (behind only that of Paris), with about 2.3 million people in 2014. In ancient history, the name of ...

  7. 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. Lyon is mostly known as the gastronomic epicentre of France, with one of the highest concentrations of restaurants per capita ...

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