Gourlizon
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Quimper | |
| Canton | Plonéour Lanvern | |
| Community association | Haut Pays Bigouden | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 1 ′ N , 4 ° 16 ′ W | |
| height | 67-159 m | |
| surface | 9.91 km 2 | |
| Residents | 896 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 90 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29710 | |
| INSEE code | 29065 | |
 Mairie Gourlizon |
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Gourlizon ( Breton Gourlizon ) is a French commune with 896 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Finistère department .
Geographical location
The place is located in the southwest of Brittany near the Atlantic coast near Douarnenez . Quimper is twelve kilometers east, Brest 44 kilometers north and Paris about 500 kilometers east (as the crow flies ). Gourlizon is located in the valley of the Goyen River .
traffic
At Quimper, the next exits are on the expressway E 60 (Brest - Nantes ) and a regional train station on the mainly parallel railway line.
The Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris and the airports Aéroport de Brest Bretagne near Brest and Aéroport de Lorient Bretagne Sud near Lorient are the nearest regional airports .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 511 | 531 | 623 | 851 | 922 | 835 | 859 | 896 |
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literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , p. 929.
Web links
Commons : Gourlizon - collection of images, videos and audio files
