Plounérin
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Plounérin Plounerin |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Cotes-d'Armor | |
| Arrondissement | Lannion | |
| Canton | Plestin-les-Grèves | |
| Community association | Lannion-Trégor Communauté | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 34 ′ N , 3 ° 32 ′ W | |
| height | 105-247 m | |
| surface | 25.89 km 2 | |
| Residents | 747 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 29 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 22780 | |
| INSEE code | 22227 | |
| Website | http://www.plounerin.bzh/ | |
 Saint-Nérin church |
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Plounérin ( Breton : Plounerin ) is a French commune with 747 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Côtes-d'Armor department in the Brittany region . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Lannion , the canton of Plestin-les-Grèves and is a member of the Lannion-Trégor Communauté community association founded in 2015 . The residents call themselves Plounérinais / Plounérinaises .
geography
Plounérin is located around 20 km (as the crow flies) southwest of the small town of Lannion in northern Brittany on the border with the Finistère department .
Population development
| year | 1793 | 1800 | 1851 | 1861 | 1876 | 1881 | 1926 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
| Residents | 1558 | 1277 | 1788 | 1692 | 1930 | 1770 | 1435 | 845 | 785 | 701 | 689 | 649 | 696 | 736 | 742 |
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The increasing mechanization of agriculture and the numerous deaths of the First World War led to a drop in the number of inhabitants to the lows of recent times.
Attractions
See also: List of the Monuments historiques in Plounérin
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , pp. 984-986.
