French cities with 50,000 inhabitants or more.
french_citiesA data.frame with 121 rows and 9 columns
The INSEE code of the city according to the official geographical code of 2025 (OGC)
The name of the city
The code of the department of the city in the OGC (see french_departments)
The code of the region of the city in the OGC (see french_regions)
The population of the city in 2022
Area of the city in squared kilometers
The latitude of the of town hall the city (epsg:4326)
The longitude of the town hall of the city (epsg:4326)
The latitude of the centre of the city (epsg:4326)
The longitude of the centre of the city (epsg:4326)
This data set describes all Metropolitan France cities with 50,000 or more inhabitants in 2022, excluding Corsican cities. It contains 121 cities described by 8 variables. The data frame is sorted in decreasing population order, making it straightforward to select the most populated cities. The same order is used for rows and columns in distance matrices french_cities_distances and french_cities_times.
The population and administrative information was collected from the INSEE open data in November 2025. These data are distributed under the French "Open Licence". Geographical coordinates and areas have been obtained from the Geo API in November 2025 and are also available under the French "Open Licence".
french_departments, french_regions, french_cities_distances and french_cities_times