Lyon

:This article is about the French city. For other usages, see Lyon (disambiguation) and Lyons (disambiguation).

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Lyon (often Lyons in English) (French pronunciation: ) is a city in east central France. Location: .

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Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, Lyon forms the second largest metropolitan area in France after Paris, with 1,648,216 inhabitants at the 1999 census, and approximately the 20th to 25th largest metropolitan area of Western Europe.

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Lyon is the capital of the Rh?ne-Alpes r?gion, and the pr?fecture (capital) of the Rh?ne d?partement.

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The city gave its name to the Lyonnais province, of which it was the capital. Today the region around Lyon is still known as Lyonnais (French: le Lyonnais), or sometimes even as the Lyonnaise Region (French: R?gion Lyonnaise). Lyonnaise Region is an unofficial, popular name, not to be confused with the administrative r?gion of Rh?ne-Alpes, which is much larger than the Lyonnaise Region.

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Lyon is also the international headquarters of Interpol.

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