Audun-le-Tiche

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Coordinates: 49°28′27″N 5°57′30″E / 49.4741666667, 5.95833333333

Audun-le-Tiche
Location
Audun-le-Tiche (France)
Audun-le-Tiche
Time Zone CET (GMT +1)
Administration
Country France
Region Lorraine
Department Moselle
Arrondissement Thionville-Ouest
Canton Fontoy
Mayor Lucien Piovano
(2007 –)
Statistics
Elevation 294 m–452 m
Land area¹ 15.43 km²
Population²
(1999)
5,757
 - Density 373.1/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 57038/ 57390
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

Audun-le-Tiche (German: Deutsch-Oth) is a town and commune in the département of Moselle, in eastern France. Audun-le-Tiche is located close to the borders between France, Germany, and Luxembourg, in the Fontoy canton of the arrondissement of Thionville-Ouest.

Audun-le-Tiche is served by a railway station that is served by both French national railway and the Luxembourgian operator, Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, on whose Line 60 it is located. It is unique in that the station's only rail link is via Luxembourg territory.