What are the 10 French cities ranked by distilleries?

In order: Angoulême, Cognac, Soyaux, Auch, Les Abymes, Baie-Mahault, Le Gosier, Petit-Bourg, Sainte-Anne and Le Moule.

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

Angoulême (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Cognac (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Soyaux (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Auch (22.8 / 100,000 inhab.) and Les Abymes (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.).

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

Cognac, at 48.5 / 100,000 inhab., just behind Angoulême (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.).

Is Angoulême really the French city ranked first on distilleries?

Yes, at 48.5 / 100,000 inhab., ahead of Cognac (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.) and Soyaux (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.).

In which département is Angoulême?

Angoulême is in département 16, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

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

Le Moule, at 21.4 / 100,000 inhab.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

1,112, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by distilleries in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Angoulême leads with 48.5 / 100,000 inhab.

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

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,112, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Angoulême (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Cognac (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Soyaux (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Auch (22.8 / 100,000 inhab.), Les Abymes (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Baie-Mahault (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Le Gosier (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Petit-Bourg (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Sainte-Anne (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Le Moule (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.).

Is this figure really about the city?

No: it is measured for the whole département, and every commune of that département carries the same figure. It is ranked this way because distilleries is not published commune by commune, and a per-commune count would be almost entirely zeros. Read each row as "this town's département", not "this town".

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Angoulême leads on distilleries, with 48.5 / 100,000 inhabitants, then Cognac (48.5 / 100,000 inhabitants) and Soyaux (48.5 / 100,000 inhabitants).

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Distilleries, 1052 cities shown. The coloured surface estimates the local tendency from nearby ranked cities. Exact city values remain in the table. 60 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, SIRENE, stock des établissements.

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Top 50 of 1,112 cities
Rank	City	Distilleries / 100,000 inhab.	Population	Region
1	16 Angoulême	48.5	41,908	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
2	16 Cognac	48.5	18,532	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
3	16 Soyaux	48.5	10,087	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
4	32 Auch	22.8	22,428	Occitanie
5	971 Les Abymes	21.4	51,055	Guadeloupe
6	971 Baie-Mahault	21.4	30,924	Guadeloupe
7	971 Le Gosier	21.4	27,757	Guadeloupe
8	971 Petit-Bourg	21.4	24,665	Guadeloupe
9	971 Sainte-Anne	21.4	23,973	Guadeloupe
10	971 Le Moule	21.4	23,014	Guadeloupe
11	971 Lamentin	21.4	18,628	Guadeloupe
12	971 Sainte-Rose	21.4	17,700	Guadeloupe
13	971 Capesterre-Belle-Eau	21.4	17,684	Guadeloupe
14	971 Morne-à-l'Eau	21.4	16,228	Guadeloupe
15	971 Pointe-à-Pitre	21.4	15,040	Guadeloupe
16	971 Saint-François	21.4	13,942	Guadeloupe
17	971 Saint-Claude	21.4	10,177	Guadeloupe
18	972 Fort-de-France	15	75,506	Martinique
19	972 Le Lamentin	15	39,400	Martinique
20	972 Le Robert	15	21,553	Martinique
21	972 Schœlcher	15	19,478	Martinique
22	972 Ducos	15	18,105	Martinique
23	972 Saint-Joseph (972)	15	16,258	Martinique
24	972 Le François	15	15,778	Martinique
25	972 Sainte-Marie (972)	15	14,756	Martinique
26	972 Rivière-Salée	15	11,829	Martinique
27	972 Rivière-Pilote	15	11,604	Martinique
28	972 La Trinité (972)	15	11,454	Martinique
29	972 Saint-Esprit	15	10,322	Martinique
30	17 La Rochelle	13.4	79,851	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
31	17 Saintes	13.4	25,363	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
32	17 Rochefort	13.4	23,460	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
33	17 Royan	13.4	19,425	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
34	46 Cahors	10.2	20,050	Occitanie
35	46 Rocamadour	10.2	597	Occitanie
36	2B Bastia	10.2	46,867	Corse
37	2B Borgo	10.2	10,311	Corse
38	2B Corte	10.2	7,819	Corse
39	2B Calvi	10.2	5,788	Corse
40	2B L'Île-Rousse	10.2	3,231	Corse
41	43 Le Puy-en-Velay	10.1	18,540	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
42	88 Épinal	9.8	32,251	Grand Est
43	88 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges	9.8	19,251	Grand Est
44	88 Gérardmer	9.8	7,581	Grand Est
45	88 Domrémy-la-Pucelle	9.8	102	Grand Est
46	24 Périgueux	9.3	29,055	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
47	24 Bergerac	9.3	27,110	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
48	24 Boulazac Isle Manoire	9.3	10,759	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
49	24 Sarlat-la-Canéda	9.3	8,763	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
50	24 Domme	9.3	906	Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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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.

11 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by distilleries?: In order: Angoulême, Cognac, Soyaux, Auch, Les Abymes, Baie-Mahault, Le Gosier, Petit-Bourg, Sainte-Anne and Le Moule.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by distilleries?: Angoulême (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Cognac (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Soyaux (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Auch (22.8 / 100,000 inhab.) and Les Abymes (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by distilleries?: Cognac, at 48.5 / 100,000 inhab., just behind Angoulême (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.).
Is Angoulême really the French city ranked first on distilleries?: Yes, at 48.5 / 100,000 inhab., ahead of Cognac (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.) and Soyaux (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.).
In which département is Angoulême?: Angoulême is in département 16, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by distilleries?: Le Moule, at 21.4 / 100,000 inhab.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 1,112, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by distilleries in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Angoulême leads with 48.5 / 100,000 inhab.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by distilleries?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 1,112, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Angoulême (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Cognac (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Soyaux (48.5 / 100,000 inhab.), Auch (22.8 / 100,000 inhab.), Les Abymes (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Baie-Mahault (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Le Gosier (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Petit-Bourg (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Sainte-Anne (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.), Le Moule (21.4 / 100,000 inhab.).
Is this figure really about the city?: No: it is measured for the whole département, and every commune of that département carries the same figure. It is ranked this way because distilleries is not published commune by commune, and a per-commune count would be almost entirely zeros. Read each row as "this town's département", not "this town".

The table below ranks the top 50 of the 1,112 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (distilleries), 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 with the fewest distilleries (by département) and The French cities with the most breweries (by département), 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.