Strasbourg Population and Area (Bas-Rhin)
Largest city in France 2026: up-to-date figures for Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)
Strasbourg: Population and Area
With 296,552 inhabitants (INSEE total population in force on January 1, 2026), Strasbourg is the 8th most populous town in France in 2026 and the most populous in the Bas-Rhin department, out of 514 communes. It covers 78 km² (429th largest area in France, 2nd largest in the department), with a population density of 3,789 inhabitants per km², or 35 times the national average (110 inhabitants/km²), which ranks it 213th in France for density.
Strasbourg is located in the Bas-Rhin department (67), in the Grand Est region (formerly Alsace), where it ranks 1st by population out of 5,115 communes. It is the most populous town in the Bas-Rhin department, which is home to 1,178,940 people over 4,755 km².
See the full ranking of communes in the Bas-Rhin department and the regional ranking: largest city in Grand Est.
Towns of similar size in the Bas-Rhin department: Haguenau (pop. 36,899), Schiltigheim (pop. 34,922), Illkirch-Graffenstaden (pop. 28,336).
Sources: INSEE, official population figures in force on January 1, 2026 (total population); areas: IGN / Observatoire des territoires; INSEE code 67482. Rankings are calculated across the 34,858 communes of metropolitan and overseas France in our database.
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