| Abbeville | 54,199 inhabitants |
| Agde | 55,370 inhabitants |
| Agen | 120,716 inhabitants |
| Ajaccio | 118,759 inhabitants |
| Albertville | 54,804 inhabitants |
| Albi | 137,824 inhabitants |
| Alençon | 80,746 inhabitants |
| Alès | 133,295 inhabitants |
| Amiens | 353,124 inhabitants |
| Ancenis-Saint-Géréon | 58,423 inhabitants |
| Angers | 441,234 inhabitants |
| Angoulême | 179,917 inhabitants |
| Annecy | 298,164 inhabitants |
| Annemasse (French part of Geneva) | 433,194 inhabitants |
| Annonay | 57,010 inhabitants |
| Arles | 58,855 inhabitants |
| Arras | 159,616 inhabitants |
| Aubenas | 65,997 inhabitants |
| Auch | 65,095 inhabitants |
| Auchel - Lillers | 56,876 inhabitants |
| Aurillac | 77,440 inhabitants |
| Auxerre | 111,458 inhabitants |
| Avignon | 339,324 inhabitants |
| Bastia | 111,603 inhabitants |
| Bayonne (French part) | 283,664 inhabitants |
| Beauvais | 144,501 inhabitants |
| Belfort | 131,313 inhabitants |
| Bergerac | 73,750 inhabitants |
| Besançon | 283,127 inhabitants |
| Béthune | 76,337 inhabitants |
| Béziers | 200,883 inhabitants |
| Blois | 145,143 inhabitants |
| Bordeaux | 1,393,764 inhabitants |
| Boulogne-sur-Mer | 160,130 inhabitants |
| Bourg-en-Bresse | 140,410 inhabitants |
| Bourges | 173,067 inhabitants |
| Brest | 375,744 inhabitants |
| Brive-la-Gaillarde | 133,164 inhabitants |
| Caen | 480,087 inhabitants |
| Cahors | 59,798 inhabitants |
| Calais | 149,673 inhabitants |
| Cambrai | 93,246 inhabitants |
| Cannes - Antibes | 393,687 inhabitants |
| Carcassonne | 124,351 inhabitants |
| Carpentras | 64,643 inhabitants |
| Castres | 105,376 inhabitants |
| Challans | 51,950 inhabitants |
| Chalon-sur-Saône | 154,499 inhabitants |
| Châlons-en-Champagne | 87,128 inhabitants |
| Chambéry | 261,463 inhabitants |
| Charleville-Mézières | 126,743 inhabitants |
| Chartres | 170,581 inhabitants |
| Châteauroux | 113,011 inhabitants |
| Châtellerault | 79,649 inhabitants |
| Chaumont | 54,875 inhabitants |
| Cherbourg-en-Cotentin | 152,630 inhabitants |
| Cholet | 163,809 inhabitants |
| Clermont-Ferrand | 508,699 inhabitants |
| Cluses | 55,252 inhabitants |
| Cognac | 58,629 inhabitants |
| Colmar | 199,434 inhabitants |
| Compiègne | 141,752 inhabitants |
| Dax | 90,005 inhabitants |
| Dieppe | 82,343 inhabitants |
| Dijon | 414,633 inhabitants |
| Dinan | 48,603 inhabitants |
| Dole | 69,502 inhabitants |
| Douai | 198,241 inhabitants |
| Draguignan | 78,329 inhabitants |
| Dunkerque | 258,733 inhabitants |
| Épinal | 119,184 inhabitants |
| Évreux | 135,831 inhabitants |
| Flers | 51,752 inhabitants |
| Forbach (French part) | 43,917 inhabitants |
| Fougères | 52,217 inhabitants |
| Fréjus | 128,230 inhabitants |
| Gap | 81,524 inhabitants |
| Grenoble | 722,904 inhabitants |
| Haguenau | 77,893 inhabitants |
| La Roche-sur-Yon | 169,377 inhabitants |
| La Rochelle | 247,139 inhabitants |
| Lannion | 85,279 inhabitants |
| Laon | 68,173 inhabitants |
| Laval | 145,065 inhabitants |
| Le Havre | 334,482 inhabitants |
| Le Mans | 369,998 inhabitants |
| Le Puy-en-Velay | 82,811 inhabitants |
| Lens - Liévin | 321,298 inhabitants |
| Les Herbiers | 48,295 inhabitants |
| Les Sables-d'Olonne | 67,292 inhabitants |
| Libourne | 55,752 inhabitants |
| Lille (French part) | 1,521,660 inhabitants |
| Limoges | 322,810 inhabitants |
| Longwy (French part) | 49,457 inhabitants |
| Lons-le-Saunier | 71,466 inhabitants |
| Lorient | 229,039 inhabitants |
| Lyon | 2,308,818 inhabitants |
| Mâcon | 138,633 inhabitants |
| Manosque | 68,299 inhabitants |
| Marmande | 50,446 inhabitants |
| Marseille - Aix-en-Provence | 1,888,788 inhabitants |
| Maubeuge | 140,946 inhabitants |
| Menton - Monaco | 112,975 inhabitants |
| Metz | 375,059 inhabitants |
| Mont-de-Marsan | 101,177 inhabitants |
| Montargis | 72,417 inhabitants |
| Montauban | 141,847 inhabitants |
| Montbéliard | 179,231 inhabitants |
| Montélimar | 101,002 inhabitants |
| Montluçon | 89,871 inhabitants |
| Montpellier | 823,120 inhabitants |
| Morlaix | 61,434 inhabitants |
| Moulins | 76,580 inhabitants |
| Mulhouse | 408,968 inhabitants |
| Nancy | 508,793 inhabitants |
| Nantes | 1,031,953 inhabitants |
| Narbonne | 155,518 inhabitants |
| Nevers | 113,918 inhabitants |
| Nice | 626,218 inhabitants |
| Nîmes | 350,007 inhabitants |
| Niort | 178,690 inhabitants |
| Orange | 55,001 inhabitants |
| Orléans | 456,452 inhabitants |
| Oyonnax | 53,671 inhabitants |
| Paris | 13,171,056 inhabitants |
| Pau | 283,346 inhabitants |
| Périgueux | 113,435 inhabitants |
| Perpignan | 422,786 inhabitants |
| Poitiers | 281,789 inhabitants |
| Quimper | 239,789 inhabitants |
| Redon | 47,562 inhabitants |
| Reims | 355,889 inhabitants |
| Rennes | 771,320 inhabitants |
| Roanne | 141,471 inhabitants |
| Rochefort | 66,193 inhabitants |
| Rodez | 112,911 inhabitants |
| Romans-sur-Isère | 65,490 inhabitants |
| Rouen | 709,065 inhabitants |
| Roussillon | 63,714 inhabitants |
| Royan | 72,224 inhabitants |
| Saint-Brieuc | 200,829 inhabitants |
| Saint-Étienne | 500,562 inhabitants |
| Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez | 49,535 inhabitants |
| Saint-Lô | 76,626 inhabitants |
| Saint-Louis (French part of Basel) | 111,382 inhabitants |
| Saint-Malo | 137,293 inhabitants |
| Saint-Nazaire | 213,675 inhabitants |
| Saint-Omer | 117,273 inhabitants |
| Saint-Quentin | 118,638 inhabitants |
| Saintes | 79,162 inhabitants |
| Salon-de-Provence | 68,881 inhabitants |
| Sarrebourg | 52,298 inhabitants |
| Sarreguemines (French part) | 78,435 inhabitants |
| Saumur | 70,117 inhabitants |
| Sens | 81,495 inhabitants |
| Sète | 44,712 inhabitants |
| Soissons | 74,576 inhabitants |
| Strasbourg (French part) | 864,993 inhabitants |
| Tarbes | 137,635 inhabitants |
| Thionville (French part of Luxembourg) | 308,550 inhabitants |
| Thonon-les-Bains | 60,378 inhabitants |
| Toulon | 581,948 inhabitants |
| Toulouse | 1,490,640 inhabitants |
| Tours | 522,597 inhabitants |
| Troyes | 221,782 inhabitants |
| Valence | 256,245 inhabitants |
| Valenciennes (French part) | 337,269 inhabitants |
| Vannes | 207,414 inhabitants |
| Vesoul | 67,112 inhabitants |
| Vichy | 91,894 inhabitants |
| Villeneuve-sur-Lot | 58,755 inhabitants |
| Vitré | 54,488 inhabitants |
