What are the 10 French cities ranked by popularity?

In order: Teva I Uta, Hitiaa O Te Ra, Paea, Bandrele, Dembeni, Taiarapu-Est, Ouangani, Tsingoni, Papara and Moorea-Maiao.

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

Teva I Uta (1,464), Hitiaa O Te Ra (1,751), Paea (2,639), Bandrele (2,728) and Dembeni (2,789).

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

Hitiaa O Te Ra, at 1,751, just behind Teva I Uta (1,464).

Is Teva I Uta really the French city ranked last on popularity?

Yes, at 1,464, ahead of Hitiaa O Te Ra (1,751) and Paea (2,639).

In which département is Teva I Uta?

Teva I Uta is in département 987, in the Polynésie française region.

What is the difference between Teva I Uta and Hitiaa O Te Ra?

Teva I Uta is at 1,464, Hitiaa O Te Ra at 1,751. 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 popularity in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Teva I Uta leads with 1,464.

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

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: Teva I Uta (1,464), Hitiaa O Te Ra (1,751), Paea (2,639), Bandrele (2,728), Dembeni (2,789), Taiarapu-Est (2,844), Ouangani (2,855), Tsingoni (2,967), Papara (2,989), Moorea-Maiao (3,005).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from Wikimedia, pageviews de Wikipédia en français, 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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The least-known city in France is Teva I Uta, at 1,464 (popularity), ahead of Hitiaa O Te Ra (1,751) and Paea (2,639).

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Popularity, 1052 cities shown. The coloured surface adds up the values (Popularity) of every ranked city within about 30 km. This ranking rewards the smallest total, so the darkest areas are the emptiest ones. Exact city values remain 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: Wikimedia, pageviews de Wikipédia en français.

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Top 50 of 1,131 cities
Rank	City	Popularity	Population	Region
1	987 Teva I Uta	1,464	10,837	Polynésie française
2	987 Hitiaa O Te Ra	1,751	10,196	Polynésie française
3	987 Paea	2,639	12,756	Polynésie française
4	976 Bandrele	2,728	10,282	Mayotte
5	976 Dembeni	2,789	15,848	Mayotte
6	987 Taiarapu-Est	2,844	13,602	Polynésie française
7	976 Ouangani	2,855	10,203	Mayotte
8	976 Tsingoni	2,967	13,934	Mayotte
9	987 Papara	2,989	11,743	Polynésie française
10	987 Moorea-Maiao	3,005	18,201	Polynésie française
11	976 Pamandzi	3,116	11,442	Mayotte
12	976 Bandraboua	3,487	13,989	Mayotte
13	987 Mahina	3,774	14,623	Polynésie française
14	976 Sada	3,927	11,156	Mayotte
15	973 Apatou	3,974	10,306	Guyane
16	987 Arue	4,138	10,322	Polynésie française
17	973 Macouria	4,722	19,899	Guyane
18	973 Mana	5,045	10,957	Guyane
19	972 Saint-Esprit	5,288	10,322	Martinique
20	59 Bruay-sur-l'Escaut	5,321	11,644	Hauts-de-France
21	976 Koungou	5,457	32,156	Mayotte
22	987 Bora-Bora	5,494	10,758	Polynésie française
23	972 Saint-Joseph (972)	5,497	16,258	Martinique
24	95 Éragny-sur-Oise	5,562	18,436	Île-de-France
25	972 Rivière-Pilote	5,728	11,604	Martinique
26	62 Longuenesse	5,804	10,548	Hauts-de-France
27	67 Hœnheim	5,852	11,742	Grand Est
28	974 Bras-Panon	5,856	13,012	La Réunion
29	988 Dumbéa	5,901	34,926	Nouvelle-Calédonie
30	974 Les Avirons	5,972	11,536	La Réunion
31	988 Païta	5,988	27,609	Nouvelle-Calédonie
32	45 Ingré	6,016	10,062	Centre-Val de Loire
33	59 Lys-lez-Lannoy	6,141	14,050	Hauts-de-France
34	972 Rivière-Salée	6,235	11,829	Martinique
35	68 Riedisheim	6,444	12,200	Grand Est
36	87 Couzeix	6,462	10,195	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
37	987 Pirae	6,519	14,068	Polynésie française
38	974 Petite-Île	6,666	13,067	La Réunion
39	42 Riorges	6,741	11,139	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
40	40 Saint-Pierre-du-Mont	6,886	10,092	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
41	28 Vernouillet	6,966	12,310	Centre-Val de Loire
42	59 Douchy-les-Mines	7,039	10,109	Hauts-de-France
43	10 Sainte-Savine	7,057	10,289	Grand Est
44	77 Thorigny-sur-Marne	7,072	10,440	Île-de-France
45	74 Vétraz-Monthoux	7,090	10,949	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
46	76 Déville-lès-Rouen	7,130	10,802	Normandie
47	33 Le Taillan-Médoc	7,131	11,073	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
48	54 Maxéville	7,189	10,090	Grand Est
49	972 Ducos	7,205	18,105	Martinique
50	91 Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon	7,208	11,623	Île-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.

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 popularity?: In order: Teva I Uta, Hitiaa O Te Ra, Paea, Bandrele, Dembeni, Taiarapu-Est, Ouangani, Tsingoni, Papara and Moorea-Maiao.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by popularity?: Teva I Uta (1,464), Hitiaa O Te Ra (1,751), Paea (2,639), Bandrele (2,728) and Dembeni (2,789).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by popularity?: Hitiaa O Te Ra, at 1,751, just behind Teva I Uta (1,464).
Is Teva I Uta really the French city ranked last on popularity?: Yes, at 1,464, ahead of Hitiaa O Te Ra (1,751) and Paea (2,639).
In which département is Teva I Uta?: Teva I Uta is in département 987, in the Polynésie française region.
What is the difference between Teva I Uta and Hitiaa O Te Ra?: Teva I Uta is at 1,464, Hitiaa O Te Ra at 1,751. 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 popularity?: Moorea-Maiao, at 3,005.
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 popularity in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Teva I Uta leads with 1,464.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by popularity?: 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: Teva I Uta (1,464), Hitiaa O Te Ra (1,751), Paea (2,639), Bandrele (2,728), Dembeni (2,789), Taiarapu-Est (2,844), Ouangani (2,855), Tsingoni (2,967), Papara (2,989), Moorea-Maiao (3,005).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from Wikimedia, pageviews de Wikipédia en français, 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 (popularity), 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 most bars per inhabitant and The French cities with the fewest bars per inhabitant, 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.