Le Cloître-Pleyben
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Le Cloître-Pleyben Kloastr-Pleiben |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Chateaulin | |
| Canton | Briec | |
| Community association | Pleyben-Châteaulin-Porzay | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 15 ′ N , 3 ° 53 ′ W | |
| height | 65-167 m | |
| surface | 20.42 km 2 | |
| Residents | 531 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 26 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29190 | |
| INSEE code | 29033 | |
 Saint Blaise Church |
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Le Cloître-Pleyben ( Breton Kloastr-Pleiben ) is a French commune in the Finistere region, with 531 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017). The municipality belongs to the canton of Briec (until 2015 canton of Pleyben ).
geography
The place is located in the west of Brittany on the edge of the Regional Natural Park Armorique ( French Parc naturel régional d'Armorique ). The Stêr Goanez River runs along the eastern municipal boundary .
Quimper is 33 kilometers southeast, Brest 46 kilometers northwest and Paris about 450 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).
traffic
At Le Faou and Châteaulin , the next exits are on the expressway E 60 (Brest – Nantes ) and at Landivisiau and Morlaix on the E 50 (Brest – Rennes ). In the aforementioned places there are also the nearest regional train stations on the mostly parallel railway lines.
Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris.
The nearest regional airports are the Aéroport de Brest Bretagne near Brest and the Aéroport de Lorient Bretagne Sud near Lorient .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2010 | 2017 |
| Residents | 881 | 791 | 673 | 508 | 512 | 536 | 579 | 531 |
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literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 899-901.
