Municipalities and towns of France in CSV, Excel, Json, Parquet and Feather

Description

The list of communes of France contains **38 data** allowing to identify the communes and to link the French communes with files from the Open Data, using the Insee code of the commune, or the postal code(s), codes of departments, regions, cantons or academy. The files also contain data on population, area, density, coordinates (of the town hall and geographical center), altitude (average, minimum and maximum) and various information. The simplified geography of the territory of the communes is present in the files marked "with geography" or "with polygon". The names of the cities are offered in 5 different formats (with or without article and/or preposition, in lower or upper case...). The municipalities of the overseas departments, regions and collectivities (DROM-COM) are included in the files but some data may be missing. ### Available file formats The files are available in csv, csv.gz and json on data.gouv.fr. Files in Excel (xlsx), Parquet (.parquet) and Feather (.feather) formats are not accepted on data.gouv.fr but are freely available on [villedereve.fr/open-data-donnees-libres-sur-les-communes](https://villedereve.fr/open-data-donnees-libres-sur-les-communes). ### Years Available The files are available for the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The geographies used are those of year N-1 (e.g. 1 January 2024 for file 2025). The differences between the files from one year to the next mainly concern the population as well as administrative changes (groupings or deletions of municipalities, mainly). ### List of data available in files - **insee_code**: Common code, INSEE code, code assigned by INSEE to the municipality - **standard_name**: Standard name of the municipality, with its article (e.g.: Le Havre) - **name_without_pronoun**: Name of the municipality, without its article if applicable (e.g. Havre) - **name_a**: Name of the municipality, preceded by the preposition to, to or from and article of the municipality, if applicable (e.g.: Le Havre) - **name of**: Name of the municipality, preceded by the preposition of the municipality's article(s), if any (e.g. Le Havre) - **name_without_accent**: Name of the municipality without accent, special characters or spaces - **Standard_name**: Name of municipality in capital letters (e.g.: THE HAVRE) - **typecom**: Type of municipality in abbreviated version (COM, COMA, COMD, ARM) - **typecom_text**: Type of municipality in text version - **reg_code**: Region code assigned by INSEE to the region of the municipality - **reg_name**: Name of the region where the municipality is located - **dep_code**: Department code assigned by INSEE to the department of the commune - **dep_nom**: Name of the department where the municipality is located - **canton_code**: Canton code of the commune - **canton_name**: Name of the canton of the municipality - **epci_code**: EPCI code (public institutions of inter-municipal cooperation) assigned by INSEE to the region of the municipality - **epci_name**: Name of the EPCI where the municipality is located - **postal_code**: Main postal code of the municipality - **postal_codes**: Postal codes attached to the municipality - **academie_code**: Code of the academy of attachment of the schools of the commune - **academie_nom**: Name of the home academy - **employment_zone**: Area of use of the municipality, defined by INSEE - **code_insee_centre_zone_emploi**: INSEE code of the municipality centre of the area of employment - **population**: Municipal population - **area_hectare**: Area of the municipality, in hectare - **area_km2**: Area of the municipality, in km2 - **density**: Density of the municipality, inhabitant per km2 - **average_altitude**: Average altitude, m - **minimum_altitude**: Minimum altitude, m - **maximum_altitude**: Maximum altitude, m - **latitude_mairie**: Latitude of the town hall - **longitude_mairie**: Longitude of the town hall - **latitude_centre**: Latitude of the centroid of the communal territory - **longitude_centre**: Longitude of the centroid of the communal territory - **densite_grid**: Communal grid of density at 7 levels, according to INSEE - **nice**: Gentile (names of inhabitants) - **url_wikipedia**: URL of the wikipedia page of the municipality - **url_villedereve**: URL of the page City of dream of the municipality ### Data source - INSEE - geo.api.gouv.fr - Ministry of Education - La Poste

Resources

Name Format Description Link
8 https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/9661724f-0d80-4bae-ad13-d5b8e1a11ac4
23 https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/24409e38-e453-4aea-8893-4c51d721ab4e
0 https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/57fc0287-c284-4067-89e8-aa3cf610b4ea
0 https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/a9ef5ab8-8874-402f-bc34-31233b9ddc56
8 https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/0a264cca-dc43-4f94-8ead-c67564a87bb6
8 https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/404fb53e-4154-467a-aab9-2f17c6379b73
0 https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/d488255f-7902-4a5d-8e46-e23309745fe5
8 https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/f5df602b-3800-44d7-b2df-fa40a0350325
0 https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/6989ed1a-8ffb-4ef9-b008-340327c99430

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