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Subcategories. This category has the following 88 subcategories, out of 88 total. Metropolitan areas of France (2 C, 8 P) Port cities and towns in France (2 C) Planned communities in France (2 C, 4 P) Prefectures in France (72 C, 102 P) Subprefectures in France (36 C, 235 P)
As of January 2019, there were 473 communes in France (metropolitan territory and overseas departments and regions) with population over 20,000, 280 communes with population over 30,000, 129 communes with population over 50,000 and 42 communes with population over 100,000. [1] All figures reflect the municipal population (French: population ...
Paris (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of France.With an official estimated population of 2,102,650 residents in January 2023 [2] in an area of more than 105 km 2 (41 sq mi), [5] Paris is the fourth-largest city in the European Union and the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. [6]
List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants (2006 census) List of communes in France (2008 version) This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at ...
Marseille is the third largest city in France by urban area (when combined with Aix-en-Provence), and the second most populous city in France, with 873,076 inhabitants in 2021 (Jan. census) [7] over a municipal territory of 241 km 2 (93 sq mi). Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over 3,972 km 2 ...
Lyon. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Lyon[c] is the third largest city of France and second largest urban area. [d] It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris ...
Nice[a] (/ niːs / NEESS; French pronunciation: [nis] ⓘ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million [4][3] on an area of 744 km 2 (287 sq mi). [3] Located on the French Riviera, the southeastern ...
The communes are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. Communes vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. Communes typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance.