Hexagone is a daily game in which you rank five French cities by one real statistic. These are the same statistics with the lid off: the full ranking behind each theme, so you can settle the argument the game started.
What is the most populated city in France?
The most populated city in France is Paris, with 2,103,778 hab., ahead of Marseille (886,040 hab.) and Lyon (519,127 hab.).
What is the densest city in France?
The densest city in France is Levallois-Perret, at 28,187 hab/km², ahead of Vincennes (25,319 hab/km²) and Le Pré-Saint-Gervais (24,196 hab/km²).
What is the largest commune in France by area?
The largest commune by area here is Mana, covering 6,622.4 km², ahead of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (4,320.8 km²) and Kourou (2,289.2 km²).
Which French city is farthest from Paris?
The French city farthest from Paris is Le Mont-Dore, 16,781 km away as the crow flies, ahead of Nouméa (16,748 km) and Dumbéa (16,731 km).
Which French city is farthest from the sea?
The French city farthest from the sea is Colmar, 480 km from the nearest coast as the crow flies, ahead of Erstein (480 km) and Sélestat (479 km).
What is the highest city in France?
The highest commune in France is Val-d'Isère, at a mean altitude of 2,583 m, ahead of Tignes (2,465 m) and Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (2,445 m).
Which is the northernmost city in France?
The northernmost city in France is Dunkerque, at a latitude of 51.0183° N, followed by its immediate neighbours Coudekerque-Branche and Grande-Synthe on the same stretch of North Sea coast.
Which is the southernmost city in France?
The southernmost city in France is Le Mont-Dore, at a latitude of 22.5171° S, ahead of Nouméa and Dumbéa. All three are in the southern hemisphere, which is where France reaches furthest south.
Which French city plays the most rugby?
Per inhabitant, the most rugby-playing town in France is Urrugne, with 29.8 / 1 000 hab., ahead of Tarnos (24.9 / 1 000 hab.) and Lavaur (24.4 / 1 000 hab.).
Which French city plays the most pétanque?
Per inhabitant, the town with the most licensed pétanque players in France is Agde, with 14.6 / 1 000 hab., ahead of Lavaur (13.8 / 1 000 hab.) and Onet-le-Château (13.6 / 1 000 hab.).
Which French city plays the most golf?
Per inhabitant, the town with the most licensed golfers in France is Arcachon, with 58.7 / 1 000 hab., ahead of Biarritz (56.4 / 1 000 hab.) and Neuilly-sur-Seine (52.8 / 1 000 hab.).
Which French city hikes the most?
Per inhabitant, the town with the most licensed hikers in France is Guidel, with 21.3 / 1 000 hab., ahead of Sanary-sur-Mer (20.7 / 1 000 hab.) and Pornichet (18.4 / 1 000 hab.).
Which French city plays the most chess?
Per inhabitant, the town with the most licensed chess players in France is Gien, with 14.9 / 1 000 hab., ahead of Sanary-sur-Mer (13.8 / 1 000 hab.) and Amilly (9.9 / 1 000 hab.).
Each one is a full ranking of the same 1,131 cities, read a different way, and each states its own method and scope. Together they are most of what the commune record can say about where a French city sits and how big it is.
Scope: France, metropolitan and overseas, Corsica and the DROM included. This dataset holds every commune of 10,000 inhabitants or more, plus smaller communes famous enough to be household names, 1,131 in all. It is not the full list of 35,000 French communes, so a village can sit outside a ranking whose extreme it would otherwise hold.
Method and sources: populations are the INSEE legal populations, boundaries and coordinates come from the IGN commune registry, both served by geo.api.gouv.fr. Density is the population divided by the commune's area; distances are measured as the crow flies from the commune's centre. Data read on August 11, 2026.