France
France: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
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France at a glance
Rolled up from the 1,094 regions inside France on this site.
Population—
registry estimate
Places inside1,012
154 with a full /local page
Businesses on file1,122,123
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered3,694
in the company directory
Who represents them16
places with a /politics page
Property & employers34 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Largest places in France
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Moscow, Russia13,000,000
- 2.Serbia6,500,000
- 3.Saint Petersburg, Russia5,601,911
- 4.Berlin, Germany full3,700,000
- 5.Madrid, Spain (España) full3,400,000
- 6.Tashkent (Toshkent)3,100,000
- 7.Lisbon, Portugal full2,925,000
- 8.Rome (Roma), Italy full2,749,000
- 9.Brandenburg, Germany2,500,000
- 10.Paris, France full2,103,000
- 11.Hamburg full1,900,000
- 12.Warsaw, Poland full1,870,000
- 13.Ulaanbaatar1,790,000
- 14.Bucharest (București), Romania full1,710,000
- 15.Budapest, Hungary full1,700,000
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Inside France
83 regions have France as their parent.
- Aix-en-Provence
- Amiens
- Angers
- Arcachon
- Arles, France
- Arras, France
- Avignon
- Bayeux
- Beaune, France
- Beauvais
- Bergerac, France
- Biarritz
- Blois, France
- Bordeaux
- Brest, France
- Caen, France
- Calais, France
- Carcassonne, France
- Chambery
- Chamonix (Mont-Blanc)
- Château-Thierry, France town
- Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France
- Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Cognac, France
- Colmar, France
- Deauville
- Dieppe, France
- Digne-les-Bains, France
- Dijon
- Dinan, France
- Dinard
- Épernay, France
- Etretat, France
- Europe continent
- Fécamp, France
- Fourmies, France
- French Riviera (Côte d'Azur), France zone
- Givet, France
- Grenoble, France
- Île de Porquerolles, France island
- La Rochelle
- Laval, France
- Le Havre
- Le Mans
- Lille, France
- Limoges
- Longwy, France
- Lorient
- Lourdes
- Lunel, France
- Lyon, France
- Maubeuge, France
- Megève, France
- Metz, France
- Montpellier, France
- Mulhouse, France
- Nancy, France
- Nantes, France
- Nimes, France
- Orléans, France
- Paris, France
- Pau
- Perigueux
- Perpignan
- Poitiers
- Quimper
- Reims
- Rennes
- Rodez
- Rouen
- Saint-Etienne
- Saint-Malo
- Saint-Quentin, France
- Strasbourg
- Tarbes
- Thionville, France
- Toulouse
- Tourcoing
- Tours
- Uzes, France
- Valenciennes, France
- Vernon, France
- Vitre, France
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Companies based in France
201 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here (the first 80 shown), and 3,694 across France and the places inside it — search them all below.
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of France are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.