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Paris - The Eiffel Tower in spring, France
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39,457
Records
12
Datasets
37
Tables
10
Sources
184
SEL Fields
39
CCL Fields
📖 HERA Atlas 📕 HG Book 📊 HG Data
📋 Most recent national census: 2021. Included in HERA.
📊 Latest intercensal survey: 2023 — rolling/continuous census (recensement de la population, enquêtes annuelles de recensement) (a sample survey between full censuses, not a complete enumeration)
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Datasets (12)
SEL — DGIWG Statistical Extent Location SEL+ — Platform extension (not in DGIWG core spec) CCL — DGIWG Cultural Context Location Extension — Preserved in extension tables (not in core SEL/CCL schema) Pending — Awaiting mapping

4 further sources (Ethnic Power Relations Dataset, GI-TOC / ENACT, Global Data Lab, World Values Survey) are held but not offered: their licences do not permit commercial redistribution. HERA cites their published findings with attribution and can supply the data to organisations holding their own licence — ask us.

FRA INSEE Commune Comparateur (36K communes) FRA-INSEE-COMMUNE-COMPARATEUR Census
34,988 rows · 1 table · 2022 INSEE 0 1 2 3 4 5 11 SEL 21 ext ▶
FRA INSEE Recensement FRA-INSEE Census
2,524 rows · 4 tables · 2021 INSEE 0 1 2 3 4 SEL 20 ext ▶
France — INSEE Comparateur de territoires (department + arrondissement) FRA-INSEE-COMPARATEUR Census
434 rows · 2 tables · 2023 INSEE (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques) 0 1 2 3 24 SEL 10 ext ▶
FRA World Bank Open Data FRA-WORLD_BANK Development Indicators
198 rows · 3 tables · 2024 World Bank Open Data 0 1 2 3 18 SEL 4 ext ▶
FRA UNHCR Refugee Data Finder FRA-UNHCR Migration
107 rows · 2 tables · 2025 UNHCR Refugee Data Finder 0 1 2 3 12 CCL 36 ext ▶
FRA LandScan Global (ORNL) FRA-LANDSCAN Modeled Population
87 rows · 3 tables · 2024 LandScan Global (ORNL) 0 1 2 3 Locality 21 SEL 2 ext ▶
FRA GHS Urban Centre Database (EU JRC) FRA-GHSL_UCDB Modeled Population
73 rows · 1 table · 2025 GHS Urban Centre Database (EU JRC) 0 1 2 3 Locality 3 SEL 7 ext ▶
FRA Glottolog Language Catalog FRA-GLOTTOLOG Language
37 rows · 1 table · 2024 Glottolog Language Catalog 0 1 2 3 12 CCL 4 ext ▶
FRA OpenFactBook FRA-OPENFACTBOOK Country Profile
25 rows · 16 tables · 2024 OpenFactBook 0 1 2 3 96 SEL 3 CCL 667 ext ▶
FRA Google Community Mobility (2020-2022) FRA-GOOGLE-MOBILITY Mobility
13 rows · 1 table · 2022 Google 0 1 2 3 3 SEL 8 ext ▶
FRA NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) FRA-NGA_GNS Language
12 rows · 2 tables · 2026 NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) 0 1 2 3 4 SEL 12 CCL 24 ext ▶
FRA INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) FRA-INFORM Risk Index
1 row · 1 table · 2026 INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) 0 1 2 3 ▶
Toponymic Footprint 106,578 place names from NGA GNS

Which languages name the landscape here, and in which writing systems. A language's toponymic footprint and its speaker population are different measures and often diverge. Counts include variant and foreign-language renderings of the same place, so a language can rank high because outside sources record names in it rather than because it is spoken locally — and a widely spoken language can be almost absent where official naming is in another language.

LanguagePlace names Share*Script
French (fra) 31,464 98.3% Latin
English (eng) 494 1.5% —
German (deu) 20 0.1% —
+ 8 further languages (29 names, each under 0.05%)

78,221 distinct features · 11 languages · 1 script · 24 conventional English names
Source: NGA GEOnet Names Server (public domain) · rebuilt Wed, 05 Aug 2026.
* Shares are of the 32,007 names that carry a language code; the remaining 74,571 of 106,578 are unattributed, so these percentages do not divide into the headline count. Names follow the US/BGN convention.

Data Sources (10)

The data providers this country's datasets are sourced from — each links out to the provider.

SourceTypeAccess
INSEE official_nso api
Google commercial bulk_download
World Bank Open Data international_organization api
INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) international_organization api
Glottolog Language Catalog academic bulk_download
UNHCR Refugee Data Finder (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) international_organization api
NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) official_government bulk_download
GHS Urban Centre Database (Global Human Settlement · EU Joint Research Centre) international_organization bulk_download
LandScan Global (ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory) research_institution earth_engine
OpenFactBook community_compilation bulk_download

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