Broons
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Commune of Broons Town square |
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| Location | |
| Longitude | 02° 15' 34" W |
| Latitude | 48° 19' 05" N |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Bretagne |
| Department | Côtes-d'Armor |
| Arrondissement | Dinan |
| Canton | Broons (chief town) |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de Communes du Pays de Du Guesclin |
| Mayor | Michel Lamarche (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 45 m–143 m (avg. 94 m) |
| Land area¹ | 35.21 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
2,382 |
| - Density (1999) | 67/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 22020/ 22250 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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- For the long running scottish comic strip, see The Broons
Broons (Breton: Bronn) is a town and commune in the Côtes-d'Armor département, Brittany, France.
The town is famous for being the birth town of Bertrand du Guesclin, born around 1320 at the castle of Motte-Broons.
Broons is twinned with the town Neufahrn i.NB in Bayern since 1971.
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