What are the 10 French cities ranked by listed monuments?

In order: Paris, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Lyon, Nancy, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Rouen, Arras and Dijon.

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

Paris (1,965 monuments), Bordeaux (405 monuments), La Rochelle (295 monuments), Lyon (280 monuments) and Nancy (277 monuments).

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

Bordeaux, at 405 monuments, just behind Paris (1,965 monuments).

Is Paris really the French city ranked first on listed monuments?

Yes, at 1,965 monuments, ahead of Bordeaux (405 monuments) and La Rochelle (295 monuments).

In which département is Paris?

Paris is in département 75, in the Île-de-France region.

What is the difference between Paris and Bordeaux?

Paris is at 1,965 monuments, Bordeaux at 405 monuments. 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?

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: Paris leads with 1,965 monuments.

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: Paris (1,965 monuments), Bordeaux (405 monuments), La Rochelle (295 monuments), Lyon (280 monuments), Nancy (277 monuments), Toulouse (263 monuments), Strasbourg (249 monuments), Rouen (243 monuments), Arras (228 monuments), Dijon (225 monuments).

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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Paris leads on listed monuments, with 1,965 monuments, then Bordeaux (405 monuments) and La Rochelle (295 monuments).

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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. 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	75 Paris	1,965	2,103,778	Île-de-France
2	33 Bordeaux	405	267,991	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
3	17 La Rochelle	295	79,851	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
4	69 Lyon	280	519,127	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
5	54 Nancy	277	103,671	Grand Est
6	31 Toulouse	263	514,819	Occitanie
7	67 Strasbourg	249	293,771	Grand Est
8	76 Rouen	243	117,662	Normandie
9	62 Arras	228	42,875	Hauts-de-France
10	21 Dijon	225	161,830	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
11	59 Lille	213	238,246	Hauts-de-France
12	25 Besançon	209	118,489	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
13	63 Clermont-Ferrand	193	146,351	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
14	45 Orléans	189	116,357	Centre-Val de Loire
15	37 Tours	181	139,259	Centre-Val de Loire
16	84 Avignon	172	92,188	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
17	13 Marseille	170	886,040	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
18	13 Aix-en-Provence	170	149,695	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
19	44 Nantes	138	327,734	Pays de la Loire
20	18 Bourges	138	64,186	Centre-Val de Loire
21	34 Montpellier	135	310,240	Occitanie
22	57 Metz	129	122,572	Grand Est
23	78 Versailles	126	84,095	Île-de-France
24	13 Arles	107	51,811	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
25	49 Angers	105	159,022	Pays de la Loire
26	35 Rennes	104	230,890	Bretagne
27	30 Nîmes	103	151,839	Occitanie
28	14 Caen	95	109,400	Normandie
29	06 Nice	91	357,737	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
30	72 Le Mans	90	146,249	Pays de la Loire
31	35 Saint-Malo	90	47,439	Bretagne
32	43 Le Puy-en-Velay	89	18,540	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
33	86 Poitiers	87	89,916	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
34	39 Lons-le-Saunier	83	16,618	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
35	51 Reims	81	177,674	Grand Est
36	87 Limoges	81	129,937	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
37	01 Pérouges	81	1,387	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
38	974 Saint-Denis (974)	76	155,634	La Réunion
39	63 Riom	76	18,820	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
40	22 Dinan	75	14,764	Bretagne
41	41 Blois	74	47,219	Centre-Val de Loire
42	02 Laon	74	24,220	Hauts-de-France
43	35 Vitré	74	19,365	Bretagne
44	24 Sarlat-la-Canéda	74	8,763	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
45	80 Amiens	71	136,449	Hauts-de-France
46	08 Charleville-Mézières	68	45,560	Grand Est
47	11 Narbonne	64	57,587	Occitanie
48	50 Le Mont-Saint-Michel	62	23	Normandie
49	28 Châteaudun	61	12,830	Centre-Val de Loire
50	68 Colmar	59	66,970	Grand Est

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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 listed monuments?: In order: Paris, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Lyon, Nancy, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Rouen, Arras and Dijon.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by listed monuments?: Paris (1,965 monuments), Bordeaux (405 monuments), La Rochelle (295 monuments), Lyon (280 monuments) and Nancy (277 monuments).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by listed monuments?: Bordeaux, at 405 monuments, just behind Paris (1,965 monuments).
Is Paris really the French city ranked first on listed monuments?: Yes, at 1,965 monuments, ahead of Bordeaux (405 monuments) and La Rochelle (295 monuments).
In which département is Paris?: Paris is in département 75, in the Île-de-France region.
What is the difference between Paris and Bordeaux?: Paris is at 1,965 monuments, Bordeaux at 405 monuments. 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 listed monuments?: Dijon, at 225 monuments.
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: Paris leads with 1,965 monuments.
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: Paris (1,965 monuments), Bordeaux (405 monuments), La Rochelle (295 monuments), Lyon (280 monuments), Nancy (277 monuments), Toulouse (263 monuments), Strasbourg (249 monuments), Rouen (243 monuments), Arras (228 monuments), Dijon (225 monuments).
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 Listed monuments: the bottom 50 French cities and Museums: 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.