Largest City in France

2026 comparison tool

Compare two cities in France

Population, real estate prices, income, facilities, health, climate: choose two towns to see them side by side, from official data.

Name, postcode or INSEE code
Name, postcode or INSEE code

Largest cities

The largest cities head to head

The 190 head-to-head comparisons of the 20 largest cities in France, from the most populous pairs down.

The other 166 comparisons of the 20 largest cities

By city

Comparisons for each large city

Each city is compared with its nearest neighbors and with cities of a similar size: the list is on its profile page.

By department

The largest towns of each department

In each department, its four most populous towns compared in pairs, when both have at least 20,000 inhabitants.

Method

How the comparisons are chosen

The site publishes 1,379 comparisons in English, between towns that each have at least 20,000 inhabitants: the largest cities against each other, each city against its nearest neighbors and against cities of a similar size, and the largest towns of each department. The form above compares any two towns; when one of them has fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, the comparison opens in French.

Every criterion comes from an official source (INSEE, the tax authorities, government ministries, Météo-France…) and is shown only when it is published for the town; the town with the higher value is named without any judgment.

Data sources

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