Local time
Mon, 7:09 PM GMT+2Europe/ParisCity
Lyon
45.77° N, 4.83° E
- Population
- 1,423,000
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 2 of 59
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 59 cities of France in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of France, so this is not a national ranking.
- Area
- 48 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- Arrondissement of Lyon · departmental district of the Rhône · Metropolis of Lyon
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Named after
- Lugdunum
- Wikidata · P138 · checked 2026-09-20
- Time zone
- Europe/Paris
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Lyon, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Lyon have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
