Villeurbanne is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of eastern France. It lies northeast of central Lyon and forms with it the heart of the second-largest metropolitan area in France after Paris. With a population of about 164,000 it is the second-largest commune in the Lyon area and the sixteenth most populated in France, and the most populous commune that is neither a prefecture nor a sub-prefecture. The site has been inhabited since about 6000 BC, and the name descends from a Gallo-Roman farming estate called Villa Urbana. The textile, mechanical and chemical industries drew many immigrants, notably from Italy, and the population rose from 3,000 in 1928 to 82,000 in 1931 under mayor Lazare Goujon, whose public works produced the Art Deco Gratte-Ciel housing complex. The La Doua campus hosts Claude Bernard University and the INSA engineering school.
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1. GeoNames: GeoNames search: Villeurbanne (FR)
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population 149,019
2. Villeurbanne (Wikipedia)
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With a population of 163,684, Villeurbanne is the second-largest commune
3. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): Opentopodata SRTM 90 m elevation at 45.766009, 4.879504
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"elevation": 177.0
France (Wikipedia)
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is a country primarily located in Western Europe
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