Abbeville Population and Area (Somme)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Abbeville (Somme)
Abbeville: Population and Area
With 22,793 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Abbeville is the 408th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 2nd most populous in the Somme department, out of 771 communes. It covers 26 km² (5,000th largest area in France, 13th largest in the department), with a population density of 863 inhabitants per km², or 7.9 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 1,108th in France for density.
Abbeville is located in the Somme department (80), in the Hauts-de-France region (formerly Picardie), where it ranks 29th by population out of 3,782 communes. The most populous town in the Somme department is Amiens (139,183 inhabitants); the department is home to 575,371 people over 6,170 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Somme department and the regional ranking: largest city in Hauts-de-France.
Towns of similar size in the Somme department: Amiens (pop. 139,183), Albert (pop. 9,668), Péronne (pop. 7,265), Corbie (pop. 6,066).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 80001. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.