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All figures reflect the municipal population (French: population municipale), meaning people who have their usual residence in the commune, [2] excluding population counted apart. [3] The population of the matching urban unit is usually several times that of its central commune. Populations as of 2006 and 2013 are also shown.
The aire urbaine is built from France's nationwide interlocking administrative commune municipalities: when a commune has over 2000 inhabitants and contains a centre of dense construction (buildings spaced no more than 200 metres apart), it is combined with other adjoining communes fulfilling the same criteria to become a single unité urbaine ("urban unit" [4]); if an urban unit offers over ...
The cities listed all have populations over 300,000. The list deals exclusively with the areas within city administrative boundaries as opposed to urban areas or larger urban zones (metropolitan areas), which are generally larger in terms of population than the main city (although they can also be smaller).
Paris population pyramid in 2022. According to Eurostat, the EU statistical agency, in 2012 the Commune of Paris was the most densely populated city in the European Union, with 21,616 people per square kilometre within the city limits (the NUTS-3 statistical area), ahead of Inner London West, which had 10,374 persons per square kilometre.
The area had a population of 13,064,617 as of 2018. [14] Nearly 20% of France's population resides in the region. The table below shows the population growth of the Paris metropolitan area (aire urbaine), i.e. the urban area (pôle urbain) and the commuter belt (couronne périurbaine) surrounding it.
This is a list of French regions and overseas territories by Human Development Index as of 2022. [1] The regions since 2016 that the pre-2016 regions correspond to or are part of are shown alongside. Rank
An aire d'attraction d'une ville [note 1] (or AAV, literally meaning "catchment area of a city") is a statistical area used by France's national statistics office INSEE since 2020, officially translated as functional area in English by INSEE, [2] which consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and the surrounding exurbs, towns and intervening rural areas that are socioeconomically ...
An urban area can be defined by one or more of the following: administrative criteria or political boundaries (e.g., area within the jurisdiction of a municipality or town committee), a threshold population size (where the minimum for an urban settlement is typically in the region of 2,000 people, although this varies globally between 200 and ...