This statistic shows the ten largest cities in France as of 2022. In 2022, around 2.11 million people lived in Paris, making it the largest city in France.

Paris was in 2022 the most populated city in France with over *** million inhabitants. Marseille was the second most important city in terms of inhabitants, and Lyon, the third. With ******* inhabitants, Lille was the tenth most populated city in France.

Population in the largest city (% of urban population) in France was reported at 20.06 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. France - Population in the largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

This statistic presents the ranking of the most visited French cities (excluding Paris) by French tourists in 2016, according to the number of nights spent in hotels. That year, around 3.5 million overnight stays were spent by French tourists in the city of Marseille, in pole position in this ranking. Lyon was not far behind with more than 3.4 million hotel nights spent there.

Population in largest city in France was reported at 11276701 in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. France - Population in largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on October of 2025.

France FR: Population in Largest City data was reported at 10,844,847.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 10,789,031.000 Person for 2016. France FR: Population in Largest City data is updated yearly, averaging 9,226,364.500 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10,844,847.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 7,410,735.000 Person in 1960. France FR: Population in Largest City data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s France – Table FR.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the urban population living in the country's largest metropolitan area.; ; United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.; ;

France FR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 20.512 % in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 20.490 % for 2016. France FR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 21.394 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 25.582 % in 1960 and a record low of 20.472 % in 2014. France FR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s France – Table FR.World Bank: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.; ; United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.; Weighted Average;

In 2025, according to data provided by StartupBlink, the top city for startups in France was Paris, with a total score of *****. Toulouse and Lyon followed, with scores of ****and ****, respectively.

View yearly updates and historical trends for France Population in the Largest City. Source: World Bank. Track economic data with YCharts analytics.

5G is finally arriving in France, with deployment in the country scheduled for November 18, 2020. 5G succeeds the previous generation of 4G, and will offer much higher speed than previously available, as well as very short latency times and an increased number of simultaneous connections possible per area covered. Marseille was the best-equipped French city with a total of 95 5G antennas, followed by Paris and Montpellier with 58 and 51 antennas, respectively.

Operators and territory coverage

As of November 2020, Orange had set up the highest number of 5G antennas under test in France. While almost the entirety of the French population was covered by mobile broadband (4G) by all four main operators, Orange was also at the top of the list in terms of territory coverage.

5G in the era of the smart city

The implementation of 5g on the French territory is one of the cornerstones of the development of the smart city and the digital transition it promotes. Indeed, open data was the most often carried out smart city project by French cities. Here again, Marseille stands out from other cities by being the most advanced French city in terms of smart city projects.

This graph presents the cities where students were looking for accommodation the most in France in 2025. It reveals that *****percent of students looking for accommodation were looking in Paris, while *****percent of them were searching for a flat to settle in Lyon.

As of mid-2023, Paris recorded a public electric vehicle charging infrastructure index score of ** percent, indicative of how high the city's ratio of public chargers per 1,000 inhabitants was. The capital was the only French city to record an index score above ** percent. Strasbourg, which was second in the ranking, had a score of ** percent.

This statistic shows the number of dental surgeons in the ten largest cities in France in 2018. That year, there were roughly *** dentists in Marseille.

This horizontal bar chart displays GDP (current US$) by capital city using the aggregation sum in France. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

Cleanup of french city's population dataset :

https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3698339

Dataset for the Hamiltonian Modelling of Macro-Economic Urban Dynamics" paper by Bernardo Monechi, Miguel Ibanez-Berganza, and Vittorio Loreto.The complete description of the dataset can be found in the README.txt file within the archive.

Urban population growth has been constant for several decades in France. Between 1960 and 2023, it rose from 61.88 percent to 81.78 percent. The phenomenon of urbanization was more significant in the 1960s. Indeed, over this period, the rate of the French population living in cities increased by 10 points. The evolution was more weighted over the next 50 years, rising from 71.06 percent in 1970 to 80.98 percent in 2020.An increase in urbanization was accompanied over the same period by a sharp rise in the overall French population, from 55.57 million inhabitants in 1982 to around 68 million in 2024. Paris, an urban giant in France Like in the United Kingdom, the French-style centralized system has led to a high concentration of population around economic, financial, cultural and political centers, all located in the British and French capitals. London and Paris (and its conurbation) are among the largest urban centers on the continent, with Moscow being the most populous. This centralization of power has led to a very heterogenous distribution of population density. The Paris region has a density of more than 1000 inhabitants per km², which is ten times higher than the Haut-de-France region, the second densest region in Metropolitan France.This centralization of power attracts a strong French and foreign workforce. The French capital is by far the most populated city in France. If solely the municipality of Paris is taken into account, it had more than 2 million inhabitants in 2019, which is more than twice as many as in Marseille and four times as many as in Lyon, the country's second and third most populous cities. Future challenges for French cities Access to employment is no longer the only reason to settle in a town. Other factors come into play in the life choices of city dwellers. In 2019, more than 90% of the French estimated that the presence of green areas was important to settle or not in a district. The pollution level of the city was also considered in the choice of the city. In order to address these pollution problems, municipalities must resolve transportation issues on their own territory. Previously the king of the town, the car is increasingly losing ground to public transport in urban areas. Cities like Paris are relying more on public transport. Between 2011 and 2016, RATP and SNCF have built more than 60 kilometers of tramway tracks . Moreover, the construction of additional train and metro lines in the Grand Paris project aimed at better connecting the suburbs to each other without passing through intramural Paris.Making it easier to travel by bicycle is one of the options chosen by many conurbations to relieve congestion in their cities. Since the early 2000s, self-service bicycles have been a great success in France with more than 2400 bicycles available in Toulouse or 4000 in Lyon in 2017. A source of much tension between motorists, municipalities and cyclists, the sharing of the road between 4 and 2 wheelers has, however, been widely developed. In Strasbourg, for example, the municipality had around 1.04 metres of cycle lanes per inhabitant in 2017, the highest rate in France. However, the layout of cycle paths can be perilous and a majority of cyclists in France still feel unsafe on the road.

A new multi-sensor dataset (MSC-France) of aerial and satellite imagery over France, with three different sensors (Sentinel-2, Landsat-8, SPOT-6) and a subset with several high-resolution pairs (SPOT-6, BDORTHO).

General description: File containing the results of the study produced by Yanport in August 2020 on the rental and capital yield of car parks in cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants of metropolitan France. If you use this data please quote Yanport: https://www.yanport.com/ Corresponding Article: https://www.yanport.com/blog/posts/investir-parking-france-2020?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=parking2020 ** Tabs**: Cities: contains results for the 40 cities of Metropolitan France Variables: N_price_medium: number of properties used to calculate the average displayed price (year 2019 Q2 to 2020 Q1 included). price_medium: average price displayed in EUR (year 2019 Q2 to 2020 Q1 included). N_loyer_medium: number of properties used to calculate the average rent (year 2019 Q2 to 2020 Q1 included). rent_medium: average rent in EUR (year 2019 Q2 to 2020 Q1 included). yield_loc: rental yield in % (rent_medium*12/medium price*100) N_prix_2019: number of goods used to calculate the average displayed price in 2019. price_2019: average price displayed in 2019 in EUR. N_prix_2017: number of goods used to calculate the average displayed price in 2017. price_2017: price shown average in 2017 in EUR. yield_cap: annualised return on capital between 2017 and 2019 in %: ((price_2019/price_2017)^(1/2)-1)*100 N_pub_med: number of properties used to calculate the median publication period for rentals (including Q2 to 2020 Q1) pub_med: median publication duration for rentals in days (including Q2 to 2020 Q1). License: Open license version 2.0: https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ETALAB-Licence-Ouverte-v2.0.pdf

The evolution of infrastructure networks such as roads and streets are of utmost importance to understand the evolution of urban systems. However, datasets describing these spatial objects are rare and sparse. The database presented here represents the road network at the french national level described in the historical map of Cassini in the 18th century. The digitalization of this historical map is based on a collaborative platform methodology that we describe in detail. These data can be used for a variety of interdisciplinary studies, covering multiple spatial resolutions and ranging from history, geography, urban economics to the science of network.