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18 largest cities formerly held by France

18 cities, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The cities

  1. 1Baghdad8 M
  2. 2Kabul5.5 M
  3. 3Frankfurt3.2 M
  4. 4Gaza City2 M
  5. 5Basra1.8 M
  6. 6Jerusalem1.1 M
  7. 7Thessaloniki783 k
  8. 8Izmit747 k
  9. 9Khan Yunis551 k
  10. 10Hebron414 k
  11. 11Ardabil404 k
  12. 12Iskenderun388 k
  13. 13Nablus209 k
  14. 14Igdır100 k
  15. 15Mukalla98 k
  16. 16Tulkarm94 k
  17. 17Kars75 k
  18. 18Ramallah44 k

Population of the metro area: the city and the places continuously built up around it, as Thomas Brinkhoff’s Major Agglomerations of the World (citypopulation.de) counts them from censuses projected to 1 January 2026, the list most rankings use. It covers every agglomeration of 1 million or more; a smaller city ranks by its GHSL urban centre (2025), or by its city-proper figure where GHSL’s centre is far larger than the list allows. A city inside another city’s metro area (Giza in Cairo’s, Pretoria in Johannesburg’s) is not ranked on its own. France (with the French colonial empire): places once under its rule and not now, from Wikidata’s dated country statements and colonial-empire membership, and the CIA World Factbook’s independence dates; military occupations of a few years are left out. A city of a country held as a whole is left out: the country is the answer there. Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), GHSL UCDB R2024A (CC BY 4.0), Thomas Brinkhoff: Major Agglomerations of the World, citypopulation.de, Wikidata names (CC0).

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