Poullaouen
Poullaouen Poullaouën |
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Finistère | |
Arrondissement | Chateaulin | |
Canton | Carhaix-Plouguer | |
Community association | Poher Community | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 20 ′ N , 3 ° 39 ′ W | |
height | 69-218 m | |
surface | 88.56 km 2 | |
Residents | 1,500 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 17 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 29246 | |
INSEE code | 29227 | |
Website | http://www.mairie-poullaouen.fr/ | |
Poullaouen Town Hall |
Poullaouen ( Breton POULLAOUEN ) is a French municipality with 1,500 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Finistère in the region of Brittany . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Châteaulin and the Canton of Carhaix-Plouguer .
It was created as the Commune nouvelle of the same name with effect from January 1, 2019 through the amalgamation of the previous municipalities of Poullaouen and Locmaria-Berrien , which have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are located in Poullaouen.
structure
District | former INSEE code |
Area (km²) | Population as of January 1, 2017 |
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Poullaouen (administrative headquarters) | 29227 | 71.36 | 1,265 |
Locmaria-Berrien | 29129 | 17.20 | 235 |
location
The community is centrally located in western Brittany between the two towns of Carhaix-Plouguer and Huelgoat . Quimper is 50 kilometers southwest, the city and port of Brest 60 kilometers northwest and Paris about 450 kilometers east (as the crow flies ). Parts of the municipality are in the Armorique Regional Nature Park . The river Aulne crosses the municipality.
Neighboring municipalities are: Scrignac in the north, Carnoët in the northeast, Plounévézel in the southeast, Kergloff in the south, Plouyé in the southwest, Huelgoat in the west and Berrien in the northwest.
traffic
At Landivisiau , Morlaix and Guingamp in the north there are exits on the expressway E 50 Brest- Rennes and at Quimper and Lorient in the south on the E 60 Brest- Nantes . In the aforementioned locations there are also train stations on the predominantly parallel regional railway lines .
Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris.
The airports Aéroport de Brest Bretagne near Brest and Aéroport de Lorient Bretagne Sud near Lorient are the nearest regional airports .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Decree of the Prefecture No. 20183335-0001 on the formation of the Commune nouvelle Poullaouen of December 1, 2018 .
- ↑ current population according to INSEE