Talk:List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants (2006 census)

overseas departments included?
Header says "overseas departments included". However, some capital cities are missing: Papeete of French Polynesia, Mamoudzou of Maoytte and Nouméa of New Caledonia.

Although Nouméa's population in its article is over 90,000, New Caledonia's status is marked as Sui generis collectivity, so it might not be counted as a 'department'. But the others can be included, Mamoudzou has over 50,000 of population and Papeete some 26,000.

It is also worth noting that the list has no entry from any of the above-mentioned regions. 85.217.38.184 (talk) 05:17, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

As can be seen from overseas department, communes of Mayotte are clearly missing. But I cannot understand why the 'collectivities' are not included. They are also part of France, aren't they? 212.50.203.198 (talk) 01:07, 24 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Mayotte became a department en 2011, so was not included in 2006 census. French Polynesia and New Caledonia are overseas territories but not departments, so as Saint-Martin. The 2006 census do not give official figures for them. — M-le-mot-dit (T) 16:22, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Side Gallery is an Excellent Feature!
Whilst consulting this Article, I came across its RHS Vertical Gallery of photos of cities and looked at several expanded versions of them. This is an excellent feature, and I strongly recommend that it is retained for an "indefinitely long period of time" (if not forever!) please!

Also, if anyone has high quality photos of French overseas territory cities that are a long way away from Europe, then they should add them, but not detract from the existing presentation, please.Okan 13:36, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Ranking on the table
Would it not make infinite more sense to have the rank in the left most column, before the city name? --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 13:24, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

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Merger proposal
Proposal to merge List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants (2006 census) and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants due to overlap and duplicate. Nicosia Denver cat (talk) 03:42, 29 October 2020 (UTC)