Brive-la-Gaillarde Population and Area (Corrèze)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze)
Brive-la-Gaillarde: Population and Area
With 48,330 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Brive-la-Gaillarde is the 143rd most populous town in France in 2026 and the most populous in the Corrèze department, out of 277 communes. It covers 49 km² (1,264th largest area in France, 11th largest in the department), with a population density of 995 inhabitants per km², or 9.1 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 946th in France for density.
Brive-la-Gaillarde is located in the Corrèze department (19), in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region (formerly Limousin), where it ranks 10th by population out of 4,293 communes. It is the most populous town in the Corrèze department, which is home to 248,289 people over 5,845 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Corrèze department and the regional ranking: largest city in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Towns of similar size in the Corrèze department: Tulle (pop. 14,017), Ussel (pop. 9,551), Malemort (pop. 8,420).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 19031. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.