[herge]

The northernmost french community (of appreciable size) in the world is the remote mining town of Fermont (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermont), in Quebec near the border with Labrador. It has ~3000 inhabitants, and is based around a large bunker/building containing housing, shops, schools, etc, which let's people live their lives in the winter without having to go outside.

The second northernmost French community is Dunkirk, France...

[ane]

The actual northernmost French (the Republic) community is in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, which is funnily enough just next to Quebec! it's an overseas territory and they use the Euro as their currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon

[herge]

If you click on the wikipedia links, you can quickly see that Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is ~5 degrees south of both Fermont and Dunkirk.

Even Paris is north of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon.

[seszett]

By the way since we're talking about France, the article seems to separate metropolitan France and the overseas regions (it lists Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon as a "country").

Otherwise maybe the chart would show quite a bit more "latitudinal population variation" with the southernmost significant populated place being 20° south of the equator.

[colomon]

It's just next to Newfoundland -- 25 kilometers to there, versus 500ish to get to Quebec.

[sebtoast]

From Wikipedia: The town is notable for the huge self-contained structure containing apartments, stores, schools, bars, a hotel, restaurants, a supermarket and swimming pool which shelters a community of smaller apartment buildings and homes on its leeward side.

I had no idea. I'm kind of ashamed I didn't know that being from the same province.

[jeromegv]

Same for me, had no idea even if I'm from Quebec.

Cool photo here: http://images.lpcdn.ca/924x615/201111/05/408611-selon-consul...

[herge]

Apparently it's a great place if you're a stripper!