Tourch
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Tourch Tourc'h |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Quimper | |
| Canton | Concarneau | |
| Community association | Concarneau Cornouaille agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 1 ′ N , 3 ° 50 ′ W | |
| height | 118-216 m | |
| surface | 19.70 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,026 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 52 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 29140 | |
| INSEE code | 29281 | |
_Mairie.JPG) Mairie Tourch |
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Tourch ( Breton Tourc'h ) is a French commune with 1,026 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in western Brittany in the Finistère department .
geography
Quimper is 20 kilometers to the west, Lorient 44 kilometers to the southeast, Brest 62 kilometers to the northwest and Paris about 470 kilometers to the east.
traffic
At Rosporden and Quimper there are departures on the expressway E 60 ( Nantes -Brest) and regional train stations on the railway line Nantes-Lorient-Rosporden-Quimper-Brest.
There are regional airports near Lorient and Brest .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1029 | 996 | 935 | 891 | 820 | 836 | 965 | 1026 |
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literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 1385-1387.
Web links
Commons : Tourch - collection of images, videos and audio files
