Plougourvest
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Morlaix | |
| Canton | Landivisiau | |
| Community association | Pays de Landivisiau | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 33 ′ N , 4 ° 5 ′ W | |
| height | 62-126 m | |
| surface | 14.07 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,404 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 100 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29400 | |
| INSEE code | 29193 | |
 Saint-Pierre church |
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Plougourvest ( Breton Gwikourvest ) is a French commune with 1,404 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 .
location
The municipality is located in northwest Brittany 15 kilometers south of the Atlantic coast . Morlaix is 19 kilometers east, the city and port of Brest 34 kilometers southwest and Paris around 480 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).
traffic
At Landivisiau there are exits on the expressway E 50 Brest- Rennes and a regional train station 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 .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1009 | 1007 | 1023 | 1060 | 1124 | 1144 | 1219 | 1404 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Pierre church
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Plougourvest
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 650-654.
