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Hauts-de-France Map
Every department, city and town in Hauts-de-France on one zoomable map, with its main highways, rivers and lakes. Switch on towns and departments above the map and zoom in for every name; tap a department to see its population, area and largest towns.
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Printable maps of Hauts-de-France
Free to print for class and home: Hauts-de-France with its cities and towns, a map of its departments, and a blank outline map. PDFs fit one A4 or US Letter page.
Hauts-de-France map with cities
Hauts-de-France departments map
Key facts
- Capital
- Lille
- Largest city
- Lille (238,246)
- Population
- 5,992,194 (2023)
- Area
- 31,806 km² (12,280 sq mi)
- Departments of Hauts-de-France
- 5
- Most populous department
- Nord (2,615,635)
- Largest department by area
- Aisne, 7,362 km² (2,842 sq mi)
About Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France has 5 departments and about 5,992,194 people (2023) on 31,806 km² (12,280 sq mi). Lille is both the capital and the largest city, with 238,246 people. It borders Grand Est, Normandy, Île-de-France and Belgium.
Nord is the most populous department (2,615,635 people) and Aisne the least (523,342); Aisne is the largest by area (7,362 km²) and Nord the smallest (5,743 km²).
Largest cities in Hauts-de-France
The 25 most populous cities and towns. All 368 are on the map above: switch on Towns and zoom in to see them.
| # | City | Department | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lille | Nord | 238,246 |
| 2 | Amiens | Somme | 136,449 |
| 3 | Tourcoing | Nord | 98,772 |
| 4 | Roubaix | Nord | 98,286 |
| 5 | Dunkerque | Nord | 86,263 |
| 6 | Calais | Pas-de-Calais | 67,571 |
| 7 | Villeneuve-d'Ascq | Nord | 62,868 |
| 8 | Beauvais | Oise | 55,550 |
| 9 | Saint-Quentin | Aisne | 52,813 |
| 10 | Valenciennes | Nord | 43,468 |
| 11 | Arras | Pas-de-Calais | 42,875 |
| 12 | Wattrelos | Nord | 40,847 |
| 13 | Compiègne | Oise | 40,761 |
| 14 | Boulogne-sur-Mer | Pas-de-Calais | 40,539 |
| 15 | Douai | Nord | 40,250 |
| 16 | Marcq-en-Barœul | Nord | 40,184 |
| 17 | Creil | Oise | 36,301 |
| 18 | Lens | Pas-de-Calais | 32,920 |
| 19 | Cambrai | Nord | 31,134 |
| 20 | Liévin | Pas-de-Calais | 30,063 |
| 21 | Maubeuge | Nord | 28,767 |
| 22 | Soissons | Aisne | 28,046 |
| 23 | Lambersart | Nord | 27,090 |
| 24 | Armentières | Nord | 26,998 |
| 25 | Hénin-Beaumont | Pas-de-Calais | 25,688 |
Populations are INSEE's populations légales 2023 (population municipale, in force on 1 January 2026); the 5 departments add up to the region's 5,992,194, as on the France map. Towns are communes at their town halls: every prefecture and sub-prefecture, and every other commune of 3,000 people or more.
Departments of Hauts-de-France
All 5 departments. Select one to show it on the map.
| Laon | 523,342 | 7,362 | |
| Lille | 2,615,635 | 5,743 | |
| Beauvais | 829,899 | 5,860 | |
| Arras | 1,457,905 | 6,671 | |
| Amiens | 565,413 | 6,171 |
Quizzes and worksheets
Sources
- Departments, regions, prefectures, sub-prefectures and communes: IGN, ADMIN EXPRESS COG CARTO 4.0, edition of 1 January 2026 (data.geopf.fr); department areas are the communes' cadastral areas.
- Populations: INSEE, populations légales 2023 (in force on 1 January 2026), population municipale by region, department and commune (insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8680726).
- Motorways and national roads: IGN, ROUTE 500 3.0, edition of November 2021.
- Rivers, lakes and lagoons: Sandre, BD TOPAGE 2025 (watercourses and water bodies, edition of August 2025).