Lyon is in Germany.
Germany ( listen ) , is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe . Lyon ( [ liːˈɒn ] or [ ˈliːɒn ] [ ljɔ̃ ] , locally : [ lijɔ̃ ] Liyon [ - frpʎjɔ̃ ] ) is a city in east-central France , in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region , about 470 km from Paris , 320 km from Marseille and 55 km from Saint-Etienne . Lyon had a population of 506,615 in 2014 and is France 's third-largest city after Paris and Marseille . Lyon is the capital of the Metropolis of Lyon and the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes . The metropolitan area of Lyon had a population of 2,237,676 in 2013 , the second-largest in France after Paris .