What are the 10 French cities ranked by distance to Paris?

In order: Paris, Ivry-sur-Seine, Montrouge, Charenton-le-Pont, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Arcueil, Saint-Mandé, Gentilly, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais and Levallois-Perret.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by distance to Paris?

Paris (0 km), Ivry-sur-Seine (5 km), Montrouge (5 km), Charenton-le-Pont (5 km) and Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (5 km).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by distance to Paris?

Ivry-sur-Seine, at 5 km, just behind Paris (0 km).

Is Paris really the French city ranked last on distance to Paris?

Yes, at 0 km, ahead of Ivry-sur-Seine (5 km) and Montrouge (5 km).

In which département is Paris?

Paris is in département 75, in the Île-de-France region.

What is the difference between Paris and Ivry-sur-Seine?

Paris is at 0 km, Ivry-sur-Seine at 5 km. The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,131, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by distance to Paris in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Paris leads with 0 km.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by distance to Paris?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,131, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Paris (0 km), Ivry-sur-Seine (5 km), Montrouge (5 km), Charenton-le-Pont (5 km), Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (5 km), Arcueil (5 km), Saint-Mandé (5 km), Gentilly (5 km), Le Pré-Saint-Gervais (5 km), Levallois-Perret (6 km).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from INSEE / geo.api.gouv.fr, joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

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Paris comes last on distance to Paris, with 0 km, ahead of Ivry-sur-Seine (5 km) and Montrouge (5 km).

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Distance to Paris, 1052 cities shown. The coloured surface is a local average over 34,963 communes, 100.0% of the country's population, weighted by the population of each one. Every commune with a published value counts, not only the towns in the table. 79 ranked overseas cities are not plotted: they fall outside this map's frame. Projection: longitude compressed by cos(46.3°N), so east-west and north-south distances stay comparable. Source: INSEE / geo.api.gouv.fr.

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Top 50 of 1,131 cities
Rank	City	Distance to Paris km	Population	Region
1	75 Paris	0	2,103,778	Île-de-France
2	94 Ivry-sur-Seine	5	65,064	Île-de-France
3	92 Montrouge	5	46,324	Île-de-France
4	94 Charenton-le-Pont	5	28,830	Île-de-France
5	94 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre	5	24,110	Île-de-France
6	94 Arcueil	5	22,200	Île-de-France
7	94 Saint-Mandé	5	21,071	Île-de-France
8	94 Gentilly	5	19,963	Île-de-France
9	93 Le Pré-Saint-Gervais	5	16,993	Île-de-France
10	92 Levallois-Perret	6	68,092	Île-de-France
11	93 Bagnolet	6	43,086	Île-de-France
12	92 Malakoff	6	30,557	Île-de-France
13	92 Vanves	6	28,622	Île-de-France
14	93 Les Lilas	6	23,843	Île-de-France
15	93 Montreuil	7	111,934	Île-de-France
16	93 Aubervilliers	7	88,365	Île-de-France
17	92 Issy-les-Moulineaux	7	67,669	Île-de-France
18	92 Clichy	7	64,410	Île-de-France
19	93 Pantin	7	61,929	Île-de-France
20	94 Villejuif	7	60,183	Île-de-France
21	92 Neuilly-sur-Seine	7	59,538	Île-de-France
22	93 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine	7	53,615	Île-de-France
23	94 Vincennes	7	48,193	Île-de-France
24	92 Bagneux	7	44,572	Île-de-France
25	93 Romainville	7	37,152	Île-de-France
26	92 Châtillon	7	36,705	Île-de-France
27	94 Cachan	7	31,103	Île-de-France
28	92 Boulogne-Billancourt	8	119,019	Île-de-France
29	94 Vitry-sur-Seine	8	93,963	Île-de-France
30	92 Asnières-sur-Seine	8	93,941	Île-de-France
31	92 Courbevoie	8	82,902	Île-de-France
32	94 Alfortville	8	45,531	Île-de-France
33	94 L'Haÿ-les-Roses	8	31,188	Île-de-France
34	92 Fontenay-aux-Roses	8	24,070	Île-de-France
35	92 Bourg-la-Reine	8	21,019	Île-de-France
36	94 Saint-Maurice	8	14,506	Île-de-France
37	93 Saint-Denis (93)	9	149,077	Île-de-France
38	93 Bobigny	9	56,927	Île-de-France
39	94 Maisons-Alfort	9	56,799	Île-de-France
40	94 Fontenay-sous-Bois	9	53,757	Île-de-France
41	93 Noisy-le-Sec	9	45,510	Île-de-France
42	92 Puteaux	9	44,002	Île-de-France
43	92 Bois-Colombes	9	28,909	Île-de-France
44	92 Villeneuve-la-Garenne	9	26,021	Île-de-France
45	92 Sceaux	9	20,884	Île-de-France
46	92 Clamart	10	58,576	Île-de-France
47	92 Gennevilliers	10	50,979	Île-de-France
48	92 Suresnes	10	48,956	Île-de-France
49	93 Rosny-sous-Bois	10	47,180	Île-de-France
50	93 La Courneuve	10	47,167	Île-de-France

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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.

12 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by distance to Paris?: In order: Paris, Ivry-sur-Seine, Montrouge, Charenton-le-Pont, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Arcueil, Saint-Mandé, Gentilly, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais and Levallois-Perret.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by distance to Paris?: Paris (0 km), Ivry-sur-Seine (5 km), Montrouge (5 km), Charenton-le-Pont (5 km) and Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (5 km).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by distance to Paris?: Ivry-sur-Seine, at 5 km, just behind Paris (0 km).
Is Paris really the French city ranked last on distance to Paris?: Yes, at 0 km, ahead of Ivry-sur-Seine (5 km) and Montrouge (5 km).
In which département is Paris?: Paris is in département 75, in the Île-de-France region.
What is the difference between Paris and Ivry-sur-Seine?: Paris is at 0 km, Ivry-sur-Seine at 5 km. The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by distance to Paris?: Levallois-Perret, at 6 km.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,131, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by distance to Paris in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Paris leads with 0 km.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by distance to Paris?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,131, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Paris (0 km), Ivry-sur-Seine (5 km), Montrouge (5 km), Charenton-le-Pont (5 km), Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (5 km), Arcueil (5 km), Saint-Mandé (5 km), Gentilly (5 km), Le Pré-Saint-Gervais (5 km), Levallois-Perret (6 km).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from INSEE / geo.api.gouv.fr, joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

The table below ranks the top 50 of the 1,131 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (distance to Paris), so you can see not just the order but how far apart the places are. The numbers are official public data: INSEE legal populations and the IGN commune registry, with the exact method and the exact scope stated under the table rather than left to be guessed at.

The same data answers neighbouring questions too: see The French cities closest to the sea and The lowest cities in France, or all rankings for the full list. All of it comes from Le Bon Rang, a free daily game that gives you five French cities and one of these statistics and asks you for the order.