Querrien
Appearance
Querrien
Kerien | |
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Querrien village hall | |
Coordinates: 47°57′38″N 3°32′08″W / 47.9606°N 3.5356°W | |
Country | France |
Region | Brittany |
Department | Finistère |
Arrondissement | Quimper |
Canton | Quimperlé |
Intercommunality | CA Quimperlé Communauté |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Stéphane Cado[1] |
Area 1 | 54.01 km2 (20.85 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 1,655 |
• Density | 31/km2 (79/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 29230 /29310 |
Elevation | 13–172 m (43–564 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Querrien (French pronunciation: [kɛʁjɛ̃]; Breton: Kerien) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France.
Population
[edit]Inhabitants of Querrien are called in French Querriennois.
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Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2020)[4] |
Geography
[edit]The village centre is located 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Quimperlé.
Neighbouring communes
[edit]Querrien is border by Lanvénégen to north, by Meslan and Locunolé to east, by Tréméven and Mellac to south and by Saint-Thurien to west.
Map
[edit]Breton language
[edit]The municipality launched a linguistic plan concerning the Breton language through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 7 March 2007.
Gallery
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Chapel of Notre Dame de la Clarté
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Fountain of La Clarté
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Manor of Kervagat
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Celtic stele of Kervagat
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Mill of Kerivarch
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Querrien, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- Mayors of Finistère Association (in French)
External links
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