Nantes (/nɒ̃t/, US also /nɑːnt(s)/, French: ⓘ; Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt ; Breton: Naoned ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique of France on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 320,732 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2020). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.