French Geo Lookup (Communes, Departements, Regions — INSEE)
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French Geo Lookup (Communes, Departements, Regions — INSEE)
Look up French communes, departements and regions by name/postal/INSEE, or reverse by GPS. Population, surface, centroid, filters. Parallel, dedup, proxy. Free.
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French Geo Lookup — Communes, Departements & Regions (INSEE) — Pro
Free Apify actor. Look up French communes, departements and regions by name, postal code, INSEE code — or reverse by GPS coordinates. Recherche geographique francaise (INSEE): communes, departements, regions.
Source: official geo.api.gouv.fr (Etalab / DINUM), INSEE Code Officiel
Geographique. No API key. Open Licence 2.0.
Levels & modes
- commune — search (name / postal / INSEE) or reverse (GPS). Returns
INSEE code, postal codes, department, region, population, surface, EPCI, SIREN
and the commune centroid. Filter by
department,region,minPopulation. - departement — by name or code -> name, code, region code.
- region — by name or code -> name, code.
Runtime (developer-grade)
Bounded parallelism (maxConcurrency), global maxItems cap,
de-duplication by level+code, resilient HTTP client (timeout, backoff+jitter,
429/5xx), optional Apify proxy, structured logs, and a run summary in the
key-value store (OUTPUT).
Output (commune, trimmed)
{"status": "found", "level": "commune","nom": "Bordeaux", "code_insee": "33063","codes_postaux": ["33000", "33100", "33200", "33300", "33800"],"code_departement": "33", "population": 267991, "surface_ha": 4936,"centre_longitude": -0.58, "centre_latitude": 44.84}
Every entry yields an item with status: found, not_found, error.
Use cases
- Convert postal codes to INSEE codes (or the reverse) in bulk.
- Reverse-geocode GPS points to their commune.
- Enrich data with department, region, population and surface.
- Build reference tables for French geographic pipelines.
Limitations & fair use
- A postal code can map to several communes; all matches are returned.
- Use
maxConcurrencyresponsibly on this shared public API.
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