Editing English Channel (section)

== Population ==
The English Channel coast is far more densely populated on the English shore. The most significant towns and cities along both the English and French sides of the Channel (each with more than 20,000 inhabitants, ranked in descending order; populations are the urban area populations from the 1999 French census, 2001 UK census, and 2001 [[Jersey]] census) are as follows:
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;England

* [[Brighton]]–[[Worthing]]–[[Littlehampton]]:<br>461,181 inhabitants, made up of:
** [[Brighton]]: 155,919
** [[Worthing]]: 96,964
** [[Hove]]: 72,335
** [[Littlehampton]]: 55,716
** [[Lancing, West Sussex|Lancing]]–[[Sompting]]: 30,360
* [[Portsmouth]]: 442,252, including
** [[Gosport]]: 79,200
* [[Bournemouth]] & [[Poole]]: 383,713
* [[Southampton]]: 304,400
* [[Plymouth]]: 258,700
* [[Torbay]] ([[Torquay]]): 129,702
* [[Hastings]]–[[Bexhill-on-Sea|Bexhill]]: 126,386
* [[Exeter]]: 119,600
* [[Eastbourne]]: 106,562
* [[Bognor Regis]]: 62,141
* [[Folkestone]]–[[Hythe, Kent|Hythe]]: 60,039
* [[Weymouth, Dorset|Weymouth]]: 56,043
* [[Dover]]: 39,078
* [[Walmer]]–[[Deal, Kent|Deal]]: 35,941
* [[Exmouth, Devon|Exmouth]]: 32,972
* [[Falmouth, Cornwall|Falmouth]]–[[Penryn, Cornwall|Penryn]]: 28,801
* [[Ryde]]: 22,806
* [[St Austell]]: 22,658
* [[Seaford, East Sussex|Seaford]]: 21,851
* [[Falmouth, Cornwall|Falmouth]]: 21,635
* [[Penzance]]: 20,255
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;France

* [[Le Havre]]: 248,547 inhabitants
* [[Calais]]: 104,852
* [[Saint-Malo]]: 50,675
* [[Lannion]]–[[Perros-Guirec]]: 48,990
* [[Saint-Brieuc]]: 45,879
* [[Boulogne-sur-Mer]]: 42,537
* [[Cherbourg-en-Cotentin|Cherbourg]]: 77,789
* [[Dieppe, Seine-Maritime|Dieppe]]: 42,202
* [[Morlaix]]: 35,996
* [[Dinard]]: 25,006
* [[Étaples]]–[[Le Touquet-Paris-Plage]]: 23,994
* [[Fécamp]]: 22,717
* [[Eu, Seine-Maritime|Eu]]–[[Le Tréport]]: 22,019
* [[Trouville-sur-Mer]]–[[Deauville]]: 20,406


;Channel Islands
* [[Saint Helier]], [[Jersey]]: 28,310 inhabitants
* [[Saint Peter Port]], [[Guernsey]]: 16,488 inhabitants
* [[Saint Anne, Alderney]]: 2,200 inhabitants
* [[Sark]]: 600 inhabitants
* [[Herm]]: 60 inhabitants
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[[File:Spinnaker Tower - geograph.org.uk - 1255913.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Spinnaker Tower|Spinnaker (observation) Tower]], [[Portsmouth Harbour]]]]
[[File:Saintmalo.jpg|thumb|The walled city of [[Saint-Malo]] was a stronghold of [[French corsairs|corsairs]].]]
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