La Teste-de-Buch Population and Area (Gironde)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for La Teste-de-Buch (Gironde)
La Teste-de-Buch Density
155 inhabitants/km²TOP #5809
La Teste-de-Buch: Population and Area
With 27,909 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), La Teste-de-Buch is the 319th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 8th most populous in the Gironde department, out of 534 communes. It covers 180 km² (54th largest area in France, 3rd largest in the department), with a population density of 155 inhabitants per km², close to the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 5,809th in France for density.
La Teste-de-Buch is located in the Gironde department (33), in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region (formerly Aquitaine), where it ranks 21st by population out of 4,293 communes. The most populous town in the Gironde department is Bordeaux (271,552 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,716,986 people over 9,976 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Gironde department and the regional ranking: largest city in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Towns of similar size in the Gironde department: Villenave-d'Ornon (pop. 42,858), Saint-Médard-en-Jalles (pop. 33,398), Bègles (pop. 32,221), Gradignan (pop. 27,379), Cenon (pop. 27,065), Lormont (pop. 26,158).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 33529. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.