Biggest French Speaking Cities

Name the biggest urban areas in the world where the French language is the lingua-franca or most commonly spoken language.
Urban-area population according to citypopulation.de, January 2026
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Population
City
16.9 m
Kinshasa
11.6 m
Paris
7.30 m
Abidjan
4.68 m
Montréal
4.38 m
Dakar
4.00 m
Conakry
3.95 m
Douala
3.90 m
Yaoundé
3.25 m
Antananarivo
3.15 m
Port-au-Prince
2.98 m
Lubumbashi
2.82 m
Brussels
2.73 m
Lomé
2.60 m
Mbuji-Mayi
2.55 m
Brazzaville
2.23 m
Cotonou
2.05 m
Lyon
2.05 m
Kigali
2.03 m
N'Djamena
1.74 m
Bangui
1.73 m
Marseille
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12 Comments
+3
Level 69
Jan 17, 2022
Good quiz, 5 ⭐'s! Only missed five, all of which I should have got :)
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Level 87
Jan 17, 2022
Pointe-Noire's misspelt
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Level 72
Jan 18, 2022
Whoops LOL how tf did that get past me
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Level 52
May 10, 2022
Lol thought tbh somebody would be like ?????????????? PARIS DOESNT HAVE MORE THAN KINSHASA?? but its a common fact now.
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Level 67
Dec 22, 2022
Monaco?
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Level 61
Jan 1, 2023
Definitely not enough people
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Level 78
Mar 16, 2023
Population of less than 40,000.
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Level 65
Apr 15, 2023
How about Casablanca?
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Level 45
Apr 18, 2023
eh casablancas more of arabic speaking, besides theres kind of spanish leftovers in that place even though morocco was a french colony, but still morocco chose not to really speak french anymore
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Level 56
Oct 15, 2023
Love this quizz, I do 24/24!!!
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Level 67
Mar 12, 2025
Wow I had no idea Montreal was predominantly French speaking! Always thought the Quebecois were a minority in Canada, like the Gaelic speakers in Scotland.
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Level 48
Jun 22, 2025
They are but nowhere near as small. Just under 30% of Canadians can speak French, most of which are found in Quebec where French is the sole official language (at least at the provincial level)!