Rosporden
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Quimper | |
| Canton | Concarneau | |
| Community association | Concarneau Cornouaille agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 58 ′ N , 3 ° 50 ′ W | |
| height | 25-171 m | |
| surface | 57.37 km 2 | |
| Residents | 7,671 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 134 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29140 | |
| INSEE code | 29241 | |
 View over one of the Étangs de Rosporden to the Church of Notre-Dame |
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Rosporden is a French commune with 7671 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the west of Brittany in the Finistère department . The city lies on the Aven river , which is dammed up here to form a lake.
Quimper is 20 kilometers to the west, Lorient 40 kilometers to the southeast, Brest 66 kilometers to the northwest and Paris about 460 kilometers to the east.
traffic
The municipality has an exit on the expressway E 60 ( Nantes -Brest) and a regional train station on the Nantes-Lorient-Rosporden-Quimper-Brest railway line .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2010 | 2017 |
| Residents | 3416 | 3378 | 7082 | 6735 | 6485 | 6441 | 7227 | 7671 |
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Attractions
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See: List of Monuments historiques in Rosporden
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 1375-1380.
Web links
Commons : Rosporden - Collection of images, videos and audio files
