la France Local Directory
Browse 34,238 cities, towns, and postal-code areas across la France, organised by region.
About la France
la France is structured into thirteen metropolitan regions, each subdivided into departments and communes. This directory lists 34,238 populated places, organised so visitors can browse from country to region to city and locate specific communities or postal-code areas of interest.
The country ranges from Mediterranean coast and Alpine peaks to Atlantic shoreline and continental plains, and the pages on this site reflect that hierarchical structure. Each region page links to the cities it contains; each city page provides basic facts (coordinates, population where known, postal codes) along with prose context drawn from the underlying open datasets.
The directory shares a five-digit postal-code system administered by La Poste at the commune level. Postal codes shown for each place are joined from the GeoNames postal dataset against the city by name and administrative region; coverage varies by country and by data-source quirk. Browse by region below, or jump directly to a featured city.
Content shown in this locale (fr-fr); place names and labels are localised where available from Wikidata and fall back to the canonical English form otherwise.
Browse by region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (3,829 places)
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (3,635 places)
- Bretagne (1,204 places)
- Centre-Val de Loire (1,764 places)
- Corse (322 places)
- Grand Est (4,862 places)
- Hauts-de-France (3,636 places)
- Île-de-France (1,276 places)
- Normandie (2,985 places)
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine (4,183 places)
- Occitanie (4,206 places)
- Pays de la Loire (1,411 places)
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (925 places)
Most populous cities
The largest urban centres in la France by recorded population.
- Paris — 2,103,778 residents
- Marseille — 886,040 residents
- Lyon — 519,127 residents
- Toulouse — 514,819 residents
- Nice — 357,737 residents
- Nantes — 327,734 residents
- Marne La Vallée — 318,325 residents
- Montpellier — 310,240 residents
- Strasbourg — 293,771 residents
- Bordeaux — 267,991 residents
- Lille — 238,246 residents
- Rennes — 230,890 residents
Places with very few people
Tiny settlements you might never have heard of — communities with only a handful of recorded residents.
- a Pecita Corse — 1 residents
- Rochefourchat Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes — 1 residents
- Leménil-Mitry Grand Est — 2 residents
- Grand Lay Centre-Val de Loire — 2 residents
- Fontanès-de-Sault Occitanie — 4 residents
- Caunette-sur-Lauquet Occitanie — 4 residents
- La Bédinière Centre-Val de Loire — 5 residents
- Les Cabrils Occitanie — 5 residents
Places with curious names
A selection of places with unusually long, hyphenated, or otherwise distinctive names worth a second look.
- Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes contains an apostrophe
- Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont Normandie contains an apostrophe
- Saint-Seurin-sur-l'Isle Nouvelle-Aquitaine contains an apostrophe
- Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds Occitanie contains an apostrophe
- Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur contains an apostrophe
- Quettreville-sur-Sienne Normandie 23 characters long
- Saint-Pierre-d'Aurillac Nouvelle-Aquitaine contains an apostrophe
- Saint-Gervais-d'Auvergne Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes contains an apostrophe