la France Local Directory
Browse 999 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 999 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 (105 places)
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (26 places)
- Bretagne (37 places)
- Centre-Val de Loire (34 places)
- Corse (3 places)
- Grand Est (73 places)
- Hauts-de-France (107 places)
- Île-de-France (286 places)
- Normandie (44 places)
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine (70 places)
- Occitanie (63 places)
- Pays de la Loire (45 places)
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (106 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.
- Neuville-en-Ferrain Hauts-de-France — 10,002 residents
- Lambesc Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur — 10,024 residents
- Saint-Loubès Nouvelle-Aquitaine — 10,027 residents
- Bussy-Saint-Georges Île-de-France — 10,043 residents
- Argeles Occitanie — 10,044 residents
- Auchel Hauts-de-France — 10,051 residents
- Ingré Centre-Val de Loire — 10,062 residents
- Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon Normandie — 10,077 residents
Places with curious names
A selection of places with unusually long, hyphenated, or otherwise distinctive names worth a second look.
- Saint-Martin-d'Hères Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes contains an apostrophe
- Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Île-de-France 25 characters long
- Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray Normandie 24 characters long
- Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire Pays de la Loire 25 characters long
- Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône Île-de-France contains an apostrophe
- Saint-Cyr-l'École Île-de-France contains an apostrophe
- Valfin-lès-Saint-Claude Bourgogne-Franche-Comté 23 characters long
- Saint-André-les-Vergers Grand Est 23 characters long