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France postal codes, places and regions
Browse postal-code records and administrative regions, with optional GeoNames Gazetteer enrichment.
Postal data availableGazetteer places available
- Place records
- 51,589
- Postal codes
- 20,418
- Named places
- 34,293
- Mapped records
- 51,589
- Shared codes
- 4,288
Snapshot-derived insight
How dense is this postal directory?
In the active ZipCodeGlobe postal snapshot, France contains 51,589 active place records across 20,418 distinct postal codes — about 2.53 place records per represented code. This describes dataset representation, not population or legal postal boundaries.
GeoNames country reference
Geographic context for France
Pariscapital
EURcurrency
33calling prefix
66,987,244countryInfo population field
GeoNames countryInfo postal format: #####. This is supporting reference metadata, not a postal-code record set.
Languages: fr-FR,frp,br,co,ca,eu,oc · Neighbour codes: CH,DE,BE,LU,IT,AD,MC,ES
GeoNames general Gazetteer
Major populated places
These are geographic place records, not postal-code records.
ParisÎle-de-France · population field 2,138,551MarseilleProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur · population field 877,215LyonRhône-Alpes · population field 520,774ToulouseOccitanie · population field 511,684NiceProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur · population field 342,669NantesPays de la Loire · population field 325,070Marne La ValléeÎle-de-France · population field 318,325StrasbourgGrand Est · population field 274,845BordeauxNew Aquitaine · population field 265,328MontpellierOccitanie · population field 248,252LilleHauts-de-France · population field 238,695Paris 15 VaugirardÎle-de-France · population field 229,713
Postal regions
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes2,397 codes · 5,903 recordsBourgogne-Franche-Comté1,001 codes · 4,474 recordsBretagne934 codes · 1,891 recordsCentre-Val de Loire847 codes · 2,471 recordsCorse185 codes · 451 recordsGrand Est1,846 codes · 6,445 recordsHauts-de-France1,649 codes · 4,862 recordsÎle-de-France4,361 codes · 5,165 recordsNormandie990 codes · 3,972 recordsNouvelle-Aquitaine1,825 codes · 5,703 recordsOccitanie1,759 codes · 5,730 recordsPays de la Loire1,055 codes · 2,331 recordsProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur1,576 codes · 2,190 records
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Source: GeoNames postal-code snapshot checked 2026-08-18. Postal data © GeoNames.org, CC BY 4.0. Accuracy codes belong to the source and are not a ZipCodeGlobe verification claim.