Saint-Hernin
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Saint-Hernin Sant-Hern |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Chateaulin | |
| Canton | Carhaix-Plouguer | |
| Community association | Poher Community | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 13 ′ N , 3 ° 38 ′ W | |
| height | 59-308 m | |
| surface | 29.29 km 2 | |
| Residents | 759 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 26 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29270 | |
| INSEE code | 29250 | |
 Saint-Hernin church |
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Saint-Hernin ( Breton Sant-Hern ) is a French commune in the Finistère department with 759 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
geography
The place is centrally located in the west of Brittany near the municipality of Carhaix-Plouguer in the Hyère valley , which is part of the Canal de Nantes à Brest here . Quimper is 42 kilometers southwest, the city and port of Brest 65 kilometers northwest and Paris about 450 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).
traffic
Saint-Hernin is close to the intersection of several national connecting roads. At Landivisiau , Morlaix and Guingamp in the north there are exits on the expressway E 50 Brest – Rennes and u. a. near 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 .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1134 | 956 | 826 | 765 | 776 | 752 | 745 | 759 |
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Attractions
See: List of Monuments historiques in Saint-Hernin
Personalities
- Georges Le Rider (1928–2014), classical scholar, numismatist and librarian
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 166-168.
