Where is Besançon in France?
Besançon is situated in the region Franche-Comte in France!
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Here you will find the location of Besançon on a map.
To see how it currently looks like outside, below are some pictures of the area from online web cameras.
You can also find the distance to the main cities in the region and to cities in the rest of France.
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Where is Besançon on the map?
Webcams near Besançon
Besancon: Place Flore. | |
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Besancon: Doubs Rivotte. | |
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Distances
Where is Besançon relative to other places?
Top 10 cities in Franche-Comte and distance from Besançon.
| City | # | Population | km | miles |
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| Besançon | 1 | 120139 | 0 | 0 |
| Belfort | 2 | 50809 | 76 | 47 |
| Montbéliard | 3 | 26895 | 66 | 41 |
| Dole | 4 | 24186 | 43 | 27 |
| Pontarlier | 5 | 18665 | 45 | 28 |
| Lons-le-Saunier | 6 | 18245 | 72 | 45 |
| Vesoul | 7 | 17050 | 43 | 27 |
| Audincourt | 8 | 15114 | 68 | 42 |
| Valentigney | 9 | 12221 | 66 | 41 |
| Saint-Claude | 10 | 12169 | 97 | 60 |
Top 10 cities in France and distance from Besançon.
| City | # | Population | km | miles |
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| Paris | 1 | 2110694 | 328 | 204 |
| Marseille | 2 | 792823 | 444 | 276 |
| Lyon | 3 | 463700 | 190 | 118 |
| Toulouse | 4 | 411145 | 541 | 336 |
| Nice | 5 | 341621 | 406 | 252 |
| Nantes | 6 | 284677 | 571 | 355 |
| Strasbourg | 7 | 273506 | 200 | 124 |
| Montpellier | 8 | 238887 | 438 | 272 |
| Bordeaux | 9 | 219311 | 575 | 357 |
| Rennes | 10 | 213334 | 584 | 363 |
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Statistics and Geographics
France is made up of 66362 cities in 22 regions.
The region Franche-Comte has 2177 cities.
Besançon is number 1 in the region Franche-Comte.
The city is number 29 in France.
The population is 120144.
