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Cities of Vendée (85)

Vendée carries 9 cities in this dataset, 207,431 inhabitants between them. The largest is La Roche-sur-Yon (54,849), the smallest L'Île-d'Yeu (4,883).

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The 9 cities of Vendée, largest first
RankCityPopulationDensity inhab./km²Area km²
1La Roche-sur-Yon54,84962388
2Les Sables-d'Olonne49,60357885.9
3Challans22,94335165.4
4Montaigu-Vendée21,134179118.2
5Les Herbiers16,52118589.1
6Fontenay-le-Comte14,05941134.2
7Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez13,07426848.7
8Aizenay10,36512682.1
9L'Île-d'Yeu4,88320424

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The rankings of Vendée

11

Where Vendée stands out

6

Its region : Pays de la Loire

The other departments of Pays de la Loire

4
Every territory (118)

All 13 regions

13

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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.

5 questions about this territory
What is the largest city of Vendée?
La Roche-sur-Yon, with 54,849 inhabitants, ahead of Les Sables-d'Olonne (49,603).
How many cities does Vendée have?
9 of its communes are listed here: every one over 10,000 inhabitants, plus the smaller ones that are household names. Vendée has far more communes than that.
Which city of Vendée is the densest?
La Roche-sur-Yon, at 623 inhab./km², against 326 inhab./km² for the cities of Vendée taken together.
Which region is Vendée in?
Pays de la Loire, which this dataset carries 56 cities of.
Which cities are in Vendée?
La Roche-sur-Yon (54,849), Les Sables-d'Olonne (49,603), Challans (22,943), Montaigu-Vendée (21,134), Les Herbiers (16,521), Fontenay-le-Comte (14,059), Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez (13,074), Aizenay (10,365), L'Île-d'Yeu (4,883). The full table is on this page, with the figures for each.