What is the highest city in Loire?

Saint-Étienne, at 633 m, ahead of Le Chambon-Feugerolles (607 m).

What is the lowest city in Loire?

Roanne, at 275 m. 10 cities of Loire are measured here.

Where does Saint-Étienne stand in France?

42 of the 1,111 French cities measured on altitude. The national ranking is on its own page.

Which cities lead in Loire?

Saint-Étienne (633 m), Le Chambon-Feugerolles (607 m), Firminy (542 m), Saint-Chamond (520 m), Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert (442 m). The whole table is on this page.

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The highest cities in Loire

Saint-Étienne is the highest city in Loire, at 633 m, ahead of Le Chambon-Feugerolles (607 m) and Firminy (542 m). At the other end, Roanne is the lowest city, at 275 m.

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The 10 cities of Loire ranked on altitude
Rank	City	Altitude	Population
1	Saint-Étienne	633 m	173,136
2	Le Chambon-Feugerolles	607 m	12,314
3	Firminy	542 m	17,060
4	Saint-Chamond	520 m	35,646
5	Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert	442 m	15,764
6	Montbrison	414 m	16,123
7	Andrézieux-Bouthéon	388 m	10,425
8	Riorges	302 m	11,139
9	Rive-de-Gier	295 m	15,242
10	Roanne	275 m	35,409

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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.

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What is the highest city in Loire?: Saint-Étienne, at 633 m, ahead of Le Chambon-Feugerolles (607 m).
What is the lowest city in Loire?: Roanne, at 275 m. 10 cities of Loire are measured here.
Where does Saint-Étienne stand in France?: 42 of the 1,111 French cities measured on altitude. The national ranking is on its own page.
Which cities lead in Loire?: Saint-Étienne (633 m), Le Chambon-Feugerolles (607 m), Firminy (542 m), Saint-Chamond (520 m), Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert (442 m). The whole table is on this page.