In Pays de la Loire · INSEE / geo.api.gouv.fr
Saint-Nazaire is the city closest to the sea in Pays de la Loire, at 1 km, ahead of La Baule-Escoublac (2 km) and Pornichet (2 km). At the other end, Baugé-en-Anjou is the city furthest from the sea, at 157 km.
| Rank | City | Distance to the sea | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44 Saint-Nazaire | 1 km | 74,568 |
| 2 | 44 La Baule-Escoublac | 2 km | 16,912 |
| 3 | 44 Pornichet | 2 km | 12,800 |
| 4 | 85 Les Sables-d'Olonne | 3 km | 49,603 |
| 5 | 44 Guérande | 3 km | 16,804 |
| 6 | 44 Saint-Brevin-les-Pins | 3 km | 14,541 |
| 7 | 85 Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez | 3 km | 13,074 |
| 8 | 44 Pornic | 4 km | 18,745 |
| 9 | 85 Challans | 18 km | 22,943 |
| 10 | 44 Pontchâteau | 20 km | 11,474 |
| 11 | 85 L'Île-d'Yeu | 22 km | 4,883 |
| 12 | 85 Aizenay | 25 km | 10,365 |
| 13 | 44 Couëron | 30 km | 24,103 |
| 14 | 85 La Roche-sur-Yon | 31 km | 54,849 |
| 15 | 44 Bouguenais | 37 km | 20,530 |
| 16 | 44 Saint-Herblain | 38 km | 50,973 |
| 17 | 44 Blain | 38 km | 10,376 |
| 18 | 44 Orvault | 41 km | 28,534 |
| 19 | 44 Rezé | 42 km | 43,556 |
| 20 | 44 Treillières | 42 km | 10,600 |
| 21 | 44 Nantes | 43 km | 327,734 |
| 22 | 85 Fontenay-le-Comte | 43 km | 14,059 |
| 23 | 44 Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire | 46 km | 28,596 |
| 24 | 44 La Chapelle-sur-Erdre | 46 km | 20,690 |
| 25 | 44 Vertou | 48 km | 26,227 |
| 26 | 44 Sainte-Luce-sur-Loire | 50 km | 16,400 |
| 27 | 44 Carquefou | 52 km | 20,921 |
| 28 | 44 Thouaré-sur-Loire | 54 km | 11,004 |
| 29 | 85 Montaigu-Vendée | 61 km | 21,134 |
| 30 | 85 Les Herbiers | 66 km | 16,521 |
| 31 | 49 Orée d'Anjou | 70 km | 17,162 |
| 32 | 49 Sèvremoine | 76 km | 25,797 |
| 33 | 53 Mayenne | 76 km | 12,883 |
| 34 | 44 Ancenis-Saint-Géréon | 76 km | 11,600 |
| 35 | 44 Châteaubriant | 79 km | 12,260 |
| 36 | 49 Montrevault-sur-Èvre | 83 km | 15,726 |
| 37 | 53 Laval | 85 km | 49,400 |
| 38 | 49 Beaupréau-en-Mauges | 85 km | 23,989 |
| 39 | 49 Cholet | 88 km | 54,404 |
| 40 | 49 Mauges-sur-Loire | 92 km | 18,695 |
| 41 | 49 Chemillé-en-Anjou | 107 km | 21,999 |
| 42 | 53 Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne | 109 km | 16,584 |
| 43 | 49 Segré-en-Anjou Bleu | 113 km | 17,667 |
| 44 | 49 Avrillé | 121 km | 15,251 |
| 45 | 49 Angers | 123 km | 159,022 |
| 46 | 72 Sablé-sur-Sarthe | 124 km | 12,326 |
| 47 | 49 Les Ponts-de-Cé | 125 km | 13,149 |
| 48 | 49 Trélazé | 128 km | 16,333 |
| 49 | 49 Doué-en-Anjou | 128 km | 11,029 |
| 50 | 49 Brissac Loire Aubance | 130 km | 10,878 |
| 51 | 49 Loire-Authion | 136 km | 16,765 |
| 52 | 49 Saumur | 145 km | 26,241 |
| 53 | 72 Allonnes | 145 km | 10,739 |
| 54 | 72 Le Mans | 146 km | 146,249 |
| 55 | 72 La Flèche | 151 km | 14,947 |
| 56 | 49 Baugé-en-Anjou | 157 km | 11,712 |
The same ranking for the whole of France : The French cities closest to the sea · The French cities farthest from the sea
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. This particular ranking is metropolitan only: the distance to the coast is measured against the coastlines of the Hexagon and Corsica, which would put an overseas port thousands of kilometres from a sea it sits on, so no value is published for overseas France rather than a wrong one.
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.