Concarneau Population and Area (Finistère)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Concarneau (Finistère)
Concarneau: Population and Area
With 21,635 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Concarneau is the 444th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 3rd most populous in the Finistère department, out of 277 communes. It covers 41 km² (1,935th largest area in France, 42nd largest in the department), with a population density of 527 inhabitants per km², or 4.8 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 1,766th in France for density.
Concarneau is located in the Finistère department (29), in the Brittany region, where it ranks 9th by population out of 1,202 communes. The most populous town in the Finistère department is Brest (144,890 inhabitants); the department is home to 957,671 people over 6,733 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Finistère department and the regional ranking: largest city in Brittany.
Towns of similar size in the Finistère department: Brest (pop. 144,890), Quimper (pop. 66,579), Landerneau (pop. 16,975), Guipavas (pop. 15,882), Morlaix (pop. 15,647).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 29039. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.