Lyon (Occitan: "Lion", Francoprovençal: "Liyon", Italian: "Lione") is a city in the southeast of France. It is the third-largest city in the country (behind Paris and Marseille), with about 513,000 people living there in 2015. It is the second largest "metropolis", or metro area, in France (behind only that of Paris), with about 2.3 million people in 2014. 