Belfort is a district and city in north-east France in the Franche-Comté région, situated between Lyon and Strasbourg. It is the biggest town and the administrative town of the Territoire de Belfort département in the Franche-Comté region. Belfort is located at 400 km (249 mi) from Paris, 141 km (88 mi) from Strasbourg, 290 km (180 mi) from Lyon and 150 km (93 mi) from Zürich. The residents of the city are called Belfortains. It is located on the Savoureuse, on the strategically important natural route between the Rhine and the Rhône - the Belfort Gap (Trouée de Belfort) or Burgundian Gate (Porte de Bourgogne). The city of Belfort has 50,199 inhabitants. Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, Belfort forms the largest agglomeration (metropolitan area) in Franche-Comté region with an urban population of 308,601 inhabitants.

Things to see include:

• The Lion of Belfort, a sculpture by Frédéric Bartholdi expressing people's resistance against the siege in the Franco-Prussian War (1870) - who shortly afterwards built the Statue of Liberty in New York.
• The Belfort Citadel - A unique example of Vauban pentagonal fortifications.
• The Belfort Cathedral, 18th century
• The old town
• The Belfort city museums are structured within three main poles:
   History (from archeology to military) in the old barracks on the top of the citadel.
   Art (mainly from 16th to 19th century) in the Tour 41.
   Modern Art in the Donation Jardot.

• Since July 2007, a tourist sight of the citadel has been open to the public - with a sound, video and light-animated trail in the moats and the big underpass of the citadel. Its name: "La Citadelle de la Liberté" (Citadel of Liberty).
• By climbing on a tall building or going up the nearby mountains on a clear day, the ice-capped mountains of the Alps in Switzerland can be seen.
• Grand souterrain de la citadelle de Belfort- An underground passage of Belfort Citadel.

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