Beaune Population and Area (Côte-d'Or)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Beaune (Côte-d'Or)
Beaune: Population and Area
With 20,999 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Beaune is the 461st most populous town in France in 2026 and the 2nd most populous in the Côte-d'Or department, out of 698 communes. It covers 31 km² (3,600th largest area in France, 28th largest in the department), with a population density of 671 inhabitants per km², or 6.1 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 1,407th in France for density.
Beaune is located in the Côte-d'Or department (21), in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region (formerly Burgundy), where it ranks 11th by population out of 3,685 communes. The most populous town in the Côte-d'Or department is Dijon (164,963 inhabitants); the department is home to 551,336 people over 8,763 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Côte-d'Or department and the regional ranking: largest city in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Towns of similar size in the Côte-d'Or department: Dijon (pop. 164,963), Chenôve (pop. 14,415), Talant (pop. 12,075), Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur (pop. 11,300).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 21054. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.