Plougar
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Plougar Gwikar |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Morlaix | |
| Canton | Landivisiau | |
| Community association | Pays de Landivisiau | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 34 ′ N , 4 ° 9 ′ W | |
| height | 53-118 m | |
| surface | 17.48 km 2 | |
| Residents | 785 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 45 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29440 | |
| INSEE code | 29187 | |
 Mairie Plougar |
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Plougar ( Breton Gwikar ) is a French commune with 785 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Finistère department in the Brittany region . It belongs to the community association Communauté de communes du Pays de Landivisiau .
geography
The municipality is located in northern Brittany, 14 kilometers south of the English Channel coast .
Morlaix is 22 kilometers east, the city and port of Brest 32 kilometers southwest and Paris about 480 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).
The Guillec River runs through the municipality and the upper reaches of the Flèche on the southern border .
traffic
At Landivisiau and Morlaix there are exits on the expressway E 50 Brest- Rennes and regional train stations on the mostly parallel railway line.
The Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris and the Aéroport de Brest Bretagne airport near Brest is the nearest regional airport . The Landivisiau military airfield is partly on the territory of the municipality.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2010 | 2017 |
| Residents | 887 | 854 | 783 | 745 | 672 | 685 | 777 | 785 |
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literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 1025-1026.
