Biggest Cities once in the French Empire

Name the most populous modern-day urban areas whose territory was once part of the French Empire.
Cities whose territory was under the sovereignty of the First or Second French colonial Empire.
Urban-area population according to citypopulation.de, January 2025
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Last updated: February 23, 2026
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Population
City
41.6 m
Shanghai
14.3 m
Ho Chi Minh City
11.5 m
Paris
7.4 m
Hanoi
7.1 m
Abidjan
5.7 m
Bamako
4.5 m
Montreal
4.5 m
Casablanca
4.3 m
Algiers
4.2 m
Dakar
4.0 m
Yaoundé
4.0
Damascus
3.4 m
Ouagadougou
3.2 m
Antananarivo
3.0 m
Port-au-Prince
3.0 m
Conakry
2.9 m
Phnom Penh
2.8 m
Brussels
2.7 m
Tunis
2.6 m
Lomé
2.5 m
Brazzaville
2.3 m
Saint-Louis
2.2 m
Cotonou
2.0 m
Lyon
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Level 24
Feb 26, 2026
Great Quiz
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Level 45
Feb 26, 2026
thanks my friend !