Menton Population and Area (Alpes-Maritimes)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Menton (Alpes-Maritimes)
Menton: Population and Area
With 31,012 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Menton is the 279th most populous town in France in 2026 and the 8th most populous in the Alpes-Maritimes department, out of 163 communes. It covers 14 km² (13,162nd largest area in France, 98th largest in the department), with a population density of 2,207 inhabitants per km², or 20 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 410th in France for density.
Menton is located in the Alpes-Maritimes department (06), in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, where it ranks 28th 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: Grasse (pop. 51,830), Le Cannet (pop. 42,297), Saint-Laurent-du-Var (pop. 32,366), Vallauris (pop. 29,509), Mandelieu-la-Napoule (pop. 21,845), Vence (pop. 20,253).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 06083. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.