Bourg-Blanc
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Bourg-Blanc Ar Vourc'h-Wenn |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Brest | |
| Canton | Plabennec | |
| Community association | Pays des Abers | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 30 ′ N , 4 ° 30 ′ W | |
| height | 25-98 m | |
| surface | 28.31 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,568 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 126 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29860 | |
| INSEE code | 29015 | |
| Website | http://www.mairie-bourgblanc.fr/ | |
 Mairie Bourg-Blanc |
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Bourg-Blanc ( Breton Ar Vourc'h-Wenn ) is a French commune in northwest Brittany in the Finistère department with 3568 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
location
The place is about twelve kilometers south of the Atlantic coast at the entrance of the English Channel . The city and port of Brest is 12 kilometers south and Paris around 500 kilometers east (as the crow flies).
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2010 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1682 | 1784 | 2290 | 2659 | 2971 | 3077 | 3399 | 3568 |
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traffic
At Brest there are the next exits on the expressways E 50 towards Rennes and E 60 towards Nantes . Brest train station is the terminus of the regional train lines to Rennes and Nantes and the TGV Atlantique to Paris.
The Aéroport de Brest Bretagne regional airport is only six kilometers south of the municipality near the city of Brest .
Attractions
- Notre-Dame church
see also: List of the Monuments historiques in Bourg-Blanc
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 853-856.
