What are the 10 French cities ranked by listed monuments?

In order: Sartrouville, Gennevilliers, Saint-Priest, Livry-Gargan, La Courneuve, Noisy-le-Sec, Gagny, Palaiseau, La Possession and Bezons.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by listed monuments?

Sartrouville (1 monument), Gennevilliers (1 monument), Saint-Priest (1 monument), Livry-Gargan (1 monument) and La Courneuve (1 monument).

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

Gennevilliers, at 1 monument, just behind Sartrouville (1 monument).

In which département is Sartrouville?

Sartrouville is in département 78, in the Île-de-France region.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

979, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by listed monuments in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Sartrouville leads with 1 monument.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by listed monuments?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 979, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Sartrouville (1 monument), Gennevilliers (1 monument), Saint-Priest (1 monument), Livry-Gargan (1 monument), La Courneuve (1 monument), Noisy-le-Sec (1 monument), Gagny (1 monument), Palaiseau (1 monument), La Possession (1 monument), Bezons (1 monument).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from Ministère de la Culture / DEPS, base des lieux et équipements culturels (Basilic), 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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Listed monuments: the bottom 50 French cities

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Sartrouville comes last on listed monuments, with 1 monument, ahead of Gennevilliers (1 monument) and Saint-Priest (1 monument).

Listed monuments, 928 cities shown. The coloured surface adds up listed monuments over 34,963 communes, 100.0% of the country's population, within about 30 km of each point. Every commune with a published value counts, not only the towns in the table. This ranking rewards the smallest total, so the darkest areas are the emptiest ones. 51 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 de la Culture / DEPS, base des lieux et équipements culturels (Basilic) · 2026-02-18.

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Top 50 of 979 cities
Rank	City	Listed monuments	Population	Region
1	78 Sartrouville	1	52,763	Île-de-France
2	92 Gennevilliers	1	50,979	Île-de-France
3	69 Saint-Priest	1	49,229	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
4	93 Livry-Gargan	1	47,228	Île-de-France
5	93 La Courneuve	1	47,167	Île-de-France
6	93 Noisy-le-Sec	1	45,510	Île-de-France
7	93 Gagny	1	42,313	Île-de-France
8	91 Palaiseau	1	37,471	Île-de-France
9	974 La Possession	1	36,568	La Réunion
10	95 Bezons	1	36,434	Île-de-France
11	94 Le Perreux-sur-Marne	1	35,260	Île-de-France
12	78 Trappes	1	34,689	Île-de-France
13	78 Les Mureaux	1	34,632	Île-de-France
14	06 Saint-Laurent-du-Var	1	32,172	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
15	95 Herblay-sur-Seine	1	31,779	Île-de-France
16	978 Saint-Martin	1	31,160	Saint-Martin
17	77 Savigny-le-Temple	1	31,148	Île-de-France
18	31 Tournefeuille	1	30,168	Occitanie
19	91 Draveil	1	30,098	Île-de-France
20	69 Décines-Charpieu	1	29,877	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
21	95 Ermont	1	29,489	Île-de-France
22	93 Clichy-sous-Bois	1	29,354	Île-de-France
23	92 Bois-Colombes	1	28,909	Île-de-France
24	92 Le Plessis-Robinson	1	28,848	Île-de-France
25	44 Orvault	1	28,534	Pays de la Loire
26	67 Illkirch-Graffenstaden	1	27,872	Grand Est
27	94 Limeil-Brévannes	1	27,406	Île-de-France
28	95 Cormeilles-en-Parisis	1	27,292	Île-de-France
29	77 Villeparisis	1	26,946	Île-de-France
30	95 Sannois	1	26,924	Île-de-France
31	91 Grigny	1	26,842	Île-de-France
32	91 Brétigny-sur-Orge	1	26,658	Île-de-France
33	78 Élancourt	1	26,365	Île-de-France
34	13 Miramas	1	26,203	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
35	62 Hénin-Beaumont	1	25,688	Hauts-de-France
36	973 Kourou	1	24,824	Guyane
37	94 Orly	1	24,658	Île-de-France
38	94 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre	1	24,110	Île-de-France
39	44 Couëron	1	24,103	Pays de la Loire
40	971 Sainte-Anne	1	23,973	Guadeloupe
41	77 Dammarie-les-Lys	1	23,559	Île-de-France
42	56 Lanester	1	23,263	Bretagne
43	95 Deuil-la-Barre	1	23,099	Île-de-France
44	68 Saint-Louis (68)	1	22,805	Grand Est
45	91 Gif-sur-Yvette	1	22,544	Île-de-France
46	93 Neuilly-Plaisance	1	21,941	Île-de-France
47	91 Saint-Michel-sur-Orge	1	21,776	Île-de-France
48	57 Montigny-lès-Metz	1	21,718	Grand Est
49	06 Mandelieu-la-Napoule	1	21,640	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
50	13 Gardanne	1	21,597	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

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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.

11 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by listed monuments?: In order: Sartrouville, Gennevilliers, Saint-Priest, Livry-Gargan, La Courneuve, Noisy-le-Sec, Gagny, Palaiseau, La Possession and Bezons.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by listed monuments?: Sartrouville (1 monument), Gennevilliers (1 monument), Saint-Priest (1 monument), Livry-Gargan (1 monument) and La Courneuve (1 monument).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by listed monuments?: Gennevilliers, at 1 monument, just behind Sartrouville (1 monument).
Is Sartrouville really the French city ranked last on listed monuments?: Yes, at 1 monument, ahead of Gennevilliers (1 monument) and Saint-Priest (1 monument).
In which département is Sartrouville?: Sartrouville is in département 78, in the Île-de-France region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by listed monuments?: Bezons, at 1 monument.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 979, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by listed monuments in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Sartrouville leads with 1 monument.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by listed monuments?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 979, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Sartrouville (1 monument), Gennevilliers (1 monument), Saint-Priest (1 monument), Livry-Gargan (1 monument), La Courneuve (1 monument), Noisy-le-Sec (1 monument), Gagny (1 monument), Palaiseau (1 monument), La Possession (1 monument), Bezons (1 monument).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from Ministère de la Culture / DEPS, base des lieux et équipements culturels (Basilic), 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 979 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (listed monuments), 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 Museums: the top 50 French cities and Museums: the bottom 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.