Le Cannet Population and Area (Alpes-Maritimes)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Le Cannet (Alpes-Maritimes)
Le Cannet: Population and Area
With 42,297 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Le Cannet is the 186th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 6th most populous in the Alpes-Maritimes department, out of 163 communes. It covers 7.71 km² (23,443rd largest area in France, 134th largest in the department), with a population density of 5,486 inhabitants per km², or 50 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 123rd in France for density.
Le Cannet is located in the Alpes-Maritimes department (06), in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, where it ranks 19th by population out of 946 communes. The most populous town in the Alpes-Maritimes department is Nice (360,710 inhabitants); the department is home to 1,142,503 people over 4,299 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Alpes-Maritimes department and the regional ranking: largest city in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Towns of similar size in the Alpes-Maritimes department: Cannes (pop. 75,105), Cagnes-sur-Mer (pop. 53,819), Grasse (pop. 51,830), Saint-Laurent-du-Var (pop. 32,366), Menton (pop. 31,012), Vallauris (pop. 29,509).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 06030. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.