Matoury Population and Area (French Guiana)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Matoury (French Guiana)
Matoury: Population and Area
With 36,694 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Matoury is the 227th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 3rd most populous in the French Guiana department, out of 22 communes. It covers 137 km² (114th largest area in France, 20th largest in the department), with a population density of 267 inhabitants per km², or 2.4 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 3,388th in France for density.
Matoury is located in the French Guiana department (973), in the French Guiana region, where it ranks 3rd by population out of 22 communes. The most populous town in the French Guiana department is Cayenne (62,951 inhabitants); the department is home to 296,053 people over 83,534 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the French Guiana department and the regional ranking: largest city in French Guiana.
Towns of similar size in the French Guiana department: Cayenne (pop. 62,951), Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (pop. 54,718), Remire-Montjoly (pop. 28,068), Kourou (pop. 25,026), Macouria (pop. 20,050).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 97307. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.