# Regions of France (NUTS 2) by active enterprises, 2023

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `active_enterprises`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Enterprises that had turnover or employment at any time during the year, with or without employees.
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/active-enterprises/france-regions

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Ile-de-France | 1,187,051 |
| 2 | Rhône-Alpes | 584,523 |
| 3 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur | 537,269 |
| 4 | Aquitaine | 321,313 |
| 5 | Languedoc-Roussillon | 264,685 |
| 6 | Midi-Pyrénées | 260,375 |
| 7 | Pays de la Loire | 254,896 |
| 8 | Bretagne | 234,522 |
| 9 | Nord-Pas de Calais | 220,693 |
| 10 | Centre - Val de Loire | 157,073 |
| 11 | Alsace | 134,025 |
| 12 | Lorraine | 128,854 |
| 13 | Poitou-Charentes | 128,850 |
| 14 | Bourgogne | 107,043 |
| 15 | Haute-Normandie | 102,489 |
| 16 | Picardie | 100,377 |
| 17 | Basse-Normandie | 93,492 |
| 18 | Auvergne | 92,791 |
| 19 | Champagne-Ardenne | 76,723 |
| 20 | Franche-Comté | 70,638 |
| 21 | La Réunion | 60,822 |
| 22 | Limousin | 48,341 |
| 23 | Martinique | 43,005 |
| 24 | Corse | 39,816 |
| 25 | Guadeloupe | 33,764 |
| 26 | Guyane | 11,086 |
| 27 | Mayotte | 3,568 |