Plouvien
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Brest | |
| Canton | Plabennec | |
| Community association | Pays des Abers | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 32 ′ N , 4 ° 27 ′ W | |
| height | 0-89 m | |
| surface | 33.70 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,766 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 112 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29860 | |
| INSEE code | 29209 | |
| Website | http://www.ville-plouvien.fr/ | |
 Church of St. Peter and Paul |
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Plouvien ( Breton Plouvien ) is a French commune in north-west Brittany in the Finistère department with 3766 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
location
The place is about ten kilometers south of the Atlantic coast at the entrance of the English Channel .
The major and port city of Brest is 15 kilometers south and Paris around 500 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).
traffic
At Brest there are the next exits on the expressways E 50 towards Rennes and E 60 towards Nantes . Brest train station is the terminus of the regional train lines in the direction of Morlaix / Rennes and Quimper / Nantes as well as the TGV Atlantique to Paris.
The regional airport Aéroport de Brest Bretagne is only ten kilometers south of the municipality near the city of Brest .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2017 |
| Residents | 2247 | 2291 | 2431 | 2779 | 2886 | 3187 | 3654 | 3766 |
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Attractions
See: List of Monuments historiques in Plouvien
Partner communities
- Tregaron in the Welsh county of Ceredigion
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 882-891.
