NXS-GRX-FRA · Western Europe · Regions

France: 13 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 13 first-level units down to ADM5, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-FRA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO FRA / FRStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
13
first-level units
37,493
units at 5 levels
63,963,924
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief
01Map

France by province, state and territory

13 first-level units and 96 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 13 first-level units of France
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Levels

Every administrative level of France

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
13 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Etalab Open License 2.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
96 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Etalab Open License 2.0 · each with its own page
ADM3
320 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Etalab Open License 2.0 · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
ADM4
2,054 fourth-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
ADM5
35,010 fifth-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0 · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
03Units

All 13 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Etalab Open License 2.0

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Auvergne-Rhône-AlpesFR-ARA7,994,0138,334,21370,73611312.5%0
Bourgogne-Franche-ComtéFR-BFC2,770,9602,733,30047,929584.3%0
BretagneFR-BRE3,244,2133,291,27427,4001185.1%122,579
Centre-Val de LoireFR-CVL2,540,5822,568,25239,419644%0
CorseFR-20R292,570310,9858,712340.5%18,895
Grand EstFR-GES5,410,3765,456,11857,547948.5%0
Hauts-de-FranceFR-HDF5,718,5995,878,75231,8431808.9%350,932
Île-de-FranceFR-IDF12,305,82712,568,69912,0321,02319.2%0
NormandieFR-NOR3,132,7613,244,65929,9991044.9%290,670
Nouvelle-AquitaineFR-NAQ5,907,6406,113,10684,994709.2%667,994
OccitanieFR-OCC6,073,6026,160,94073,225839.5%306,158
Pays de la LoireFR-PDL3,804,1413,937,27532,3211185.9%387,712
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’AzurFR-PAC4,768,6404,936,39931,6131517.5%222,560
04Risk

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for France publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen FRA ADM1, source: Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN-F), licence: Etalab Open License 2.0 · source · represents 2022
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen FRA ADM2, source: Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN-F), licence: Etalab Open License 2.0 · source · represents 2022
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen FRA ADM3, source: Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN-F), licence: Etalab Open License 2.0 · source · represents 2022
ADM4 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen FRA ADM4, source: OpenStreetMap, Data.gouv.fr (http//data.gouv.fr) © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2015. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM5 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen FRA ADM5, source: Republic of France, Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications, Posts and Press Distribution (ARCEP), licence: Open Data Commons Attribution License 1.0 · source · represents 2020
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Countries
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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