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French cities, department by department

1,131 cities, 105 departments, one page each. Every page lists the cities of its department with the figures underneath, and says which national rankings its towns come top of.

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3 questions about this index
Which department has the most cities?
Nord (59), with 54 cities in this dataset, ahead of Yvelines (78) (42).
How many departments are listed here?
105: every French department and overseas collectivity this dataset carries a city of, 1,131 cities between them. 10 of them carry exactly one.
How do I find the cities of my area?
Pick your department below, grouped by region: its page lists every one of its cities, largest first, with population, density and area.

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

12

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

8

Bretagne

4

Centre-Val de Loire

6

Corse

2

Grand Est

10

Guadeloupe

1

Guyane

1

Hauts-de-France

5

Île-de-France

8

La Réunion

1

Martinique

1

Mayotte

1

Normandie

5

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

12

Nouvelle-Calédonie

1

Occitanie

13

Pays de la Loire

5

Polynésie française

1

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

6

Saint-Barthélemy

1

Saint-Martin

1

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Scope, method and sources

Scope: France, metropolitan and overseas, Corsica and the DROM included. This dataset holds every commune of 10,000 inhabitants or more, plus smaller communes famous enough to be household names, 1,131 in all. It is not the full list of 35,000 French communes, so a village can sit outside a ranking whose extreme it would otherwise hold.

Method and sources: populations are the INSEE legal populations, boundaries and coordinates come from the IGN commune registry, both served by geo.api.gouv.fr. Density is the population divided by the commune's area; distances are measured as the crow flies from the commune's centre. Data read on August 28, 2026.