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Drawing on interviews and data collected in a quantitative survey on identity (Life History survey, INSEE, 2003), this paper addresses the process of developing a sense of territorial belonging in populations that are increasingly mobile on an international scale. The whole of an individual's geographical trajectory and the meaning bestowed on places, past or present, experienced, visited or even imagined, are key elements for understanding identification and the geographical scale on which it takes place in territory. They form a pool of geographical identity on which the individual can draw.