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Guipavas
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Guipavas (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The writer Maurice Polard (born 1932) is from Guipavas.
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Guipavas is a commune in the Finistère department of France, situated within the arrondissement of Brest and the Metropolitan Brest area. It serves as the capital of the canton of Guipavas. The municipality has a population of 15,538, comprising 7,097 males and 7,385 females. Its residents are known as Guipavasiens and Guipavasiennes. The area covers 44.13 square kilometers, with an elevation above sea level of 131 meters.
The commune shares borders with Plabennec, Brest, La Forest-Landerneau, and Gouesnou. It is twinned with Barsbüttel. The local postal code is 29490, and the official website is guipavas.bzh.
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Place details
- Locality
- Guipavas
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Population
- 13,755
- Timezone
- Europe/Paris
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- French commune.name
- Guipavas
- French commune.commune status
- Commune
- French commune.image
- Guipavas vue ouest.jpg
- French commune.caption
- Guipavas, seen from West
- French commune.image coat of arms
- Blason ville fr Guipavas (Finistère).svg
- French commune.INSEE
- 29075
- French commune.postal code
- 29490
- French commune.arrondissement
- Brest
- French commune.canton
- Guipavas
- French commune.mayor
- Fabrice Jacob
- French commune.term
- 2020–2026
- French commune.intercommunality
- Brest Métropole
- French commune.elevation min m
- 0
- French commune.elevation max m
- 131
- French commune.area km2
- 44.13
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Official website
Page d’accueil – Guipavas
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Guipavas
- Demonym
- Guipavasiennes
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Metropolitan Brest
- Population
- 15538
- Area
- 44.13
- Elevation
- 81
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Saint-Divy
- Official website
- guipavas.bzh
- Image
- Guipavas vue ouest.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Barsbüttel
- Commons category
- Guipavas
- postal code
- 29490
- Commons gallery
- Guipavas
- associated electoral district
- canton of Guipavas
- male population
- 7097
- female population
- 7385
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-2-98-84-75-54
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Population
- Breton language
- See also
- References
- External links
Guipavas (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The writer Maurice Polard (born 1932) is from Guipavas.
The city is divided into two major parts: the west, known as the dynamic core of the city and suburban area of Brest, where a new commercial centre opened in 2007, and the east, which is more traditional and lies around the Roman Catholic church.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guipavas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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