Nevers Population and Area (Nièvre)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Nevers (Nièvre)
Nevers: Population and Area
With 34,018 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Nevers is the 247th most populous town in France in 2026 and the most populous in the Nièvre department, out of 309 communes. It covers 17 km² (9,983rd largest area in France, 183rd largest in the department), with a population density of 1,963 inhabitants per km², or 18 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 465th in France for density.
Nevers is located in the Nièvre department (58), in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region (formerly Burgundy), where it ranks 7th by population out of 3,685 communes. It is the most populous town in the Nièvre department, which is home to 206,356 people over 6,817 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Nièvre department and the regional ranking: largest city in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Towns of similar size in the Nièvre department: Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire (pop. 9,949), Varennes-Vauzelles (pop. 9,305), Decize (pop. 5,103).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 58194. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.