Which region has the most cities?

Île-de-France, with 266 cities in this dataset, ahead of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (116).

How many regions are listed here?

22, 1,131 cities between them. 13 of them hold more than one department and get a page of their own; the others are single-department regions, whose row points at that department's page.

How do I find the cities of my area?

Pick your region below: its page lists every one of its cities with the figures, and links to each of its departments.

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French cities, region by region

1,131 cities, 22 regions, one page each. Every page lists the cities of its region, department by department, with the figures underneath.

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Which region has the most cities?: Île-de-France, with 266 cities in this dataset, ahead of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (116).
How many regions are listed here?: 22, 1,131 cities between them. 13 of them hold more than one department and get a page of their own; the others are single-department regions, whose row points at that department's page.
How do I find the cities of my area?: Pick your region below: its page lists every one of its cities with the figures, and links to each of its departments.

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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.