Fougères Population and Area (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Fougères (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Fougères: Population and Area
With 20,946 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Fougères is the 464th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 3rd most populous in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, out of 332 communes. It covers 10 km² (18,238th largest area in France, 239th largest in the department), with a population density of 2,002 inhabitants per km², or 18 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 451st in France for density.
Fougères is located in the Ille-et-Vilaine department (35), in the Brittany region, where it ranks 11th by population out of 1,202 communes. The most populous town in the Ille-et-Vilaine department is Rennes (234,950 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,145,286 people over 6,775 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Ille-et-Vilaine department and the regional ranking: largest city in Brittany.
Towns of similar size in the Ille-et-Vilaine department: Rennes (pop. 234,950), Saint-Malo (pop. 48,675), Bruz (pop. 20,113), Vitré (pop. 19,938), Cesson-Sévigné (pop. 19,263).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 35115. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.