What are the 10 French cities ranked by density?

In order: Mana, Chambord, Apatou, Cauterets, Le Mont-Saint-Michel, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Colombey les Deux Églises, Kourou, Domrémy-la-Pucelle and Rocamadour.

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

Mana (2 inhab./km²), Chambord (2 inhab./km²), Apatou (5 inhab./km²), Cauterets (5 inhab./km²) and Le Mont-Saint-Michel (6 inhab./km²).

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

Chambord, at 2 inhab./km², just behind Mana (2 inhab./km²).

Is Mana really the French city ranked last on density?

Yes, at 2 inhab./km², ahead of Chambord (2 inhab./km²) and Apatou (5 inhab./km²).

In which département is Mana?

Mana is in département 973, in the Guyane region.

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 density in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Mana leads with 2 inhab./km².

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

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: Mana (2 inhab./km²), Chambord (2 inhab./km²), Apatou (5 inhab./km²), Cauterets (5 inhab./km²), Le Mont-Saint-Michel (6 inhab./km²), Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (7 inhab./km²), Colombey les Deux Églises (8 inhab./km²), Kourou (11 inhab./km²), Domrémy-la-Pucelle (11 inhab./km²), Rocamadour (12 inhab./km²).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from INSEE, populations légales, 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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Mana comes last on density, with 2 inhabitants per km², ahead of Chambord (2 inhabitants per km²) and Apatou (5 inhabitants per km²).

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Density, 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, populations légales · 2022.

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Top 50 of 1,131 cities
Rank	City	Density inhab./km²	Population	Region
1	973 Mana	2	10,957	Guyane
2	41 Chambord	2	102	Centre-Val de Loire
3	973 Apatou	5	10,306	Guyane
4	65 Cauterets	5	829	Occitanie
5	50 Le Mont-Saint-Michel	6	23	Normandie
6	13 Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer	7	2,433	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
7	52 Colombey les Deux Églises	8	661	Grand Est
8	973 Kourou	11	24,824	Guyane
9	88 Domrémy-la-Pucelle	11	102	Grand Est
10	46 Rocamadour	12	597	Occitanie
11	973 Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni	13	54,429	Guyane
12	12 Najac	14	771	Occitanie
13	73 Val-d'Isère	15	1,567	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
14	73 Tignes	21	1,919	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
15	89 Vézelay	22	476	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
16	84 Bonnieux	23	1,198	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
17	2A Bonifacio	24	3,344	Corse
18	84 Ménerbes	32	962	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
19	73 Courchevel	33	2,290	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
20	84 Gordes	34	1,661	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
21	74 Chamonix-Mont-Blanc	35	8,705	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
22	24 Domme	36	906	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
23	988 Païta	40	27,609	Nouvelle-Calédonie
24	988 Le Mont-Dore	40	25,303	Nouvelle-Calédonie
25	31 Bagnères-de-Luchon	40	2,076	Occitanie
26	74 La Clusaz	40	1,623	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
27	49 Baugé-en-Anjou	43	11,712	Pays de la Loire
28	987 Hitiaa O Te Ra	47	10,196	Polynésie française
29	2B Corte	52	7,819	Corse
30	83 Ramatuelle	54	1,888	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
31	89 Chablis	55	2,139	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
32	68 Riquewihr	59	999	Grand Est
33	74 Morzine	60	2,658	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
34	33 Saint-Émilion	60	1,608	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
35	987 Taiarapu-Est	62	13,602	Polynésie française
36	13 Saint-Martin-de-Crau	66	14,145	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
37	74 Megève	66	2,893	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
38	87 Oradour-sur-Glane	66	2,550	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
39	2A Porto-Vecchio	67	11,198	Corse
40	27 Giverny	67	430	Normandie
41	13 Arles	68	51,811	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
42	49 Chemillé-en-Anjou	68	21,999	Pays de la Loire
43	973 Macouria	69	19,899	Guyane
44	49 Segré-en-Anjou Bleu	72	17,667	Pays de la Loire
45	01 Pérouges	72	1,387	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
46	49 Doué-en-Anjou	74	11,029	Pays de la Loire
47	50 Carentan-les-Marais	75	10,218	Normandie
48	50 La Hague	77	11,484	Normandie
49	49 Montrevault-sur-Èvre	79	15,726	Pays de la Loire
50	40 Biscarrosse	82	15,836	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 density?: In order: Mana, Chambord, Apatou, Cauterets, Le Mont-Saint-Michel, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Colombey les Deux Églises, Kourou, Domrémy-la-Pucelle and Rocamadour.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by density?: Mana (2 inhab./km²), Chambord (2 inhab./km²), Apatou (5 inhab./km²), Cauterets (5 inhab./km²) and Le Mont-Saint-Michel (6 inhab./km²).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by density?: Chambord, at 2 inhab./km², just behind Mana (2 inhab./km²).
Is Mana really the French city ranked last on density?: Yes, at 2 inhab./km², ahead of Chambord (2 inhab./km²) and Apatou (5 inhab./km²).
In which département is Mana?: Mana is in département 973, in the Guyane region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by density?: Rocamadour, at 12 inhab./km².
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 density in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Mana leads with 2 inhab./km².
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by density?: 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: Mana (2 inhab./km²), Chambord (2 inhab./km²), Apatou (5 inhab./km²), Cauterets (5 inhab./km²), Le Mont-Saint-Michel (6 inhab./km²), Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (7 inhab./km²), Colombey les Deux Églises (8 inhab./km²), Kourou (11 inhab./km²), Domrémy-la-Pucelle (11 inhab./km²), Rocamadour (12 inhab./km²).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from INSEE, populations légales, 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 (density), 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 smallest French cities by area and The French cities closest to Paris, 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.