What are the 10 French cities ranked by hikers?

In order: Matoury, Lingolsheim, Denain, Mulhouse, Sarcelles, Vaulx-en-Velin, La Courneuve, Les Mureaux, Saint-Dizier and Saint-Louis (68).

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by hikers?

Matoury (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Lingolsheim (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Denain (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Mulhouse (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.) and Sarcelles (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by hikers?

Lingolsheim, at 0 / 1,000 inhab., just behind Matoury (0 / 1,000 inhab.).

Is Matoury really the French city ranked last on hikers?

Yes, at 0 / 1,000 inhab., ahead of Lingolsheim (0 / 1,000 inhab.) and Denain (0 / 1,000 inhab.).

In which département is Matoury?

Matoury is in département 973, in the Guyane region.

Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by hikers?

Saint-Louis (68), at 0.1 / 1,000 inhab.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,026, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by hikers in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Matoury leads with 0 / 1,000 inhab.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by hikers?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,026, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Matoury (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Lingolsheim (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Denain (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Mulhouse (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), Sarcelles (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), Vaulx-en-Velin (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), La Courneuve (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), Les Mureaux (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Dizier (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Louis (68) (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from Ministère des Sports, recensement des licences sportives, 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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Matoury comes last on hikers, with 0 / 1,000 inhabitants, ahead of Lingolsheim (0 / 1,000 inhabitants) and Denain (0 / 1,000 inhabitants).

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Hikers, 980 cities shown. The coloured surface estimates the local tendency from nearby ranked cities. Exact city values remain in the table. 46 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: Ministère des Sports, recensement des licences sportives · 2023.

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Top 50 of 1,026 cities
Rank	City	Hikers / 1,000 inhab.	Population	Region
1	973 Matoury	0	36,512	Guyane
2	67 Lingolsheim	0	20,826	Grand Est
3	59 Denain	0	20,665	Hauts-de-France
4	68 Mulhouse	0.1	104,978	Grand Est
5	95 Sarcelles	0.1	59,173	Île-de-France
6	69 Vaulx-en-Velin	0.1	53,069	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
7	93 La Courneuve	0.1	47,167	Île-de-France
8	78 Les Mureaux	0.1	34,632	Île-de-France
9	52 Saint-Dizier	0.1	22,858	Grand Est
10	68 Saint-Louis (68)	0.1	22,805	Grand Est
11	08 Sedan	0.1	16,667	Grand Est
12	68 Illzach	0.1	14,923	Grand Est
13	57 Freyming-Merlebach	0.1	13,266	Grand Est
14	68 Cernay	0.1	12,057	Grand Est
15	68 Wittelsheim	0.1	10,645	Grand Est
16	59 Vieux-Condé	0.1	10,617	Hauts-de-France
17	62 Oignies	0.1	10,323	Hauts-de-France
18	93 Aubervilliers	0.2	88,365	Île-de-France
19	973 Cayenne	0.2	62,675	Guyane
20	93 Bobigny	0.2	56,927	Île-de-France
21	93 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine	0.2	53,615	Île-de-France
22	95 Garges-lès-Gonesse	0.2	41,791	Île-de-France
23	62 Liévin	0.2	30,063	Hauts-de-France
24	94 Orly	0.2	24,658	Île-de-France
25	62 Bruay-la-Buissière	0.2	21,424	Hauts-de-France
26	59 Grande-Synthe	0.2	20,239	Hauts-de-France
27	973 Macouria	0.2	19,899	Guyane
28	67 Bischheim	0.2	18,558	Grand Est
29	14 Vire Normandie	0.2	17,457	Normandie
30	62 Avion	0.2	17,435	Hauts-de-France
31	68 Wittenheim	0.2	15,553	Grand Est
32	29 Douarnenez	0.2	14,068	Bretagne
33	27 Val-de-Reuil	0.2	13,245	Normandie
34	67 Obernai	0.2	12,587	Grand Est
35	44 Châteaubriant	0.2	12,260	Pays de la Loire
36	62 Harnes	0.2	12,247	Hauts-de-France
37	68 Riedisheim	0.2	12,200	Grand Est
38	93 Dugny	0.2	11,700	Île-de-France
39	50 La Hague	0.2	11,484	Normandie
40	67 Strasbourg	0.3	293,771	Grand Est
41	59 Roubaix	0.3	98,286	Hauts-de-France
42	68 Colmar	0.3	66,970	Grand Est
43	69 Saint-Fons	0.3	19,285	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
44	01 Saint-Genis-Pouilly	0.3	14,432	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
45	94 Valenton	0.3	14,406	Île-de-France
46	67 Ostwald	0.3	13,946	Grand Est
47	01 Gex	0.3	13,627	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
48	59 Comines	0.3	12,731	Hauts-de-France
49	59 Raismes	0.3	12,199	Hauts-de-France
50	62 Bully-les-Mines	0.3	12,146	Hauts-de-France

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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. This particular ranking is a rate per inhabitant, so it covers towns of 10,000 people or more only: in a village of a hundred, three licence holders would read as thirty per thousand and outrank a town with a professional club, so no rate is published below that size rather than a meaningless one.

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.

11 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by hikers?: In order: Matoury, Lingolsheim, Denain, Mulhouse, Sarcelles, Vaulx-en-Velin, La Courneuve, Les Mureaux, Saint-Dizier and Saint-Louis (68).
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by hikers?: Matoury (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Lingolsheim (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Denain (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Mulhouse (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.) and Sarcelles (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by hikers?: Lingolsheim, at 0 / 1,000 inhab., just behind Matoury (0 / 1,000 inhab.).
Is Matoury really the French city ranked last on hikers?: Yes, at 0 / 1,000 inhab., ahead of Lingolsheim (0 / 1,000 inhab.) and Denain (0 / 1,000 inhab.).
In which département is Matoury?: Matoury is in département 973, in the Guyane region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by hikers?: Saint-Louis (68), at 0.1 / 1,000 inhab.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,026, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by hikers in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Matoury leads with 0 / 1,000 inhab.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by hikers?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,026, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Matoury (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Lingolsheim (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Denain (0 / 1,000 inhab.), Mulhouse (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), Sarcelles (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), Vaulx-en-Velin (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), La Courneuve (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), Les Mureaux (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Dizier (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.), Saint-Louis (68) (0.1 / 1,000 inhab.).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from Ministère des Sports, recensement des licences sportives, 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 1,026 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (hikers), 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 where chess is least played and Skiers: the top 50 French cities, 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.