Leuhan
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Chateaulin | |
| Canton | Briec | |
| Community association | Haute Cornouaille | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 6 ′ N , 3 ° 47 ′ W | |
| height | 97-246 m | |
| surface | 32.75 km 2 | |
| Residents | 819 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 25 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29390 | |
| INSEE code | 29125 | |
| Website | http://www.leuhan.fr/ | |
 Saint-Théléau church |
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Leuhan ( Breton Leuc'han ) is a French commune in western Brittany in the Finistère department with 819 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017). The municipality belongs to the canton of Briec (canton of Châteauneuf-du-Faou until 2015 ).
location
The place is located around 36 kilometers east of the Atlantic coast on the southern edge of the Montagnes Noires ridge .
Quimper is 26 kilometers southwest, the city and port of Brest 60 kilometers northwest and Paris about 470 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).
traffic
In Briec , Quimper and Rosporden there are runs on the expressway E 60 Brest Nantes .
In Châteaulin, Quimper and Rosporden hold regional trains on the railway line Brest-Nantes and the train station of Brest is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris. The Aéroport de Brest Bretagne regional airport is located near the city of Brest in Guipavas .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1430 | 1281 | 1043 | 932 | 794 | 754 | 781 | 819 |
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particularities
The listed facade of the St-Jean chapel ruin was relocated to Treffiagat and rebuilt there in the Notre-Dame-des-Flots church .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 242-246.
