France

===Major cities===
{{See also|Functional area (France)|Urban unit}}
France is a highly urbanised country, with its [[List of cities in France over 20,000 population (1999 census)|largest cities]] (in terms of [[Functional area (France)|metropolitan area]] population in 2019<ref>{{Cite web |title=Population municipale 2019 – France par aire d'attraction des villes – Tableau |url=https://statistiques-locales.insee.fr/#c=indicator&i=pop_legales.popmun&s=2019&t=A01&view=map13 |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=Insee}}</ref>) being Paris (13,114,718 inh.), [[Lyon]] (2,280,845), [[Marseille]] (1,873,270), [[Lille]] (1,510,079), [[Toulouse]] (1,454,158), [[Bordeaux]] (1,363,711), [[Nantes]] (1,011,020), [[Strasbourg]] (853,110), [[Montpellier]] (801,595), and [[Rennes]] (755,668). (Note: since its 2020 revision of metropolitan area borders, [[INSEE]] considers that [[Nice]] is a metropolitan area separate from the [[Cannes]]-[[Antibes]] metropolitan area; these two combined would have a population of 1,008,296, as of the 2019 census). [[Rural flight]] was a perennial political issue throughout most of the 20th century.
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