Saint-Brieuc

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Commune of Saint-Brieuc / Sant-Brieg Saint-Brieuc Cathedral
Location
Longitude	02° 45' 54" W
Latitude	48° 30' 48" N
Administration
Country	France
Region	Bretagne
Department	Côtes-d'Armor (préfecture)
Arrondissement	Saint-Brieuc
Canton	Chief town of 3 cantons
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération de Saint-Brieuc (CABRI)
Mayor	Bruno Joncour (2001-2008)
Statistics
Altitude	0 m–134 m (avg. 99 m)
Land area¹	21.88 km²
Population² (1999)	46,087
- Density (1999)	2,106/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	22278/ 22000
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).

Saint-Brieuc (Breton: Sant-Brieg) is a commune in France, situated in Côtes-d'Armor in Brittany. The inhabitants are called Briochins. Saint-Brieuc is named after a Welsh monk - St. Briocus, who evangelized the region in the 6th century and established an oratory there.

the historic bishoprics of Brittany

Saint-Brieuc gives its name to Bro Sant-Brieg/Pays de Saint-Brieuc, one of the nine traditional bishoprics of Brittany, used as administrative areas before the French Revolution.

[edit] Geography

The town is located by the English Channel, in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc at 48°30′48″N, 02°45′54″WCoordinates: 48°30′48″N, 02°45′54″W . Two rivers flow through Saint-Brieuc: the Goued/Gouët and the Gouedig/Gouëdic.

Saint-Brieuc préfecture of the Côtes d'Armor is twinned with :

• Aberystwyth
• Aghia Paraskevi
• Alsdorf

Other towns of notable size in the département of Côtes d'Armor are Gwengamp/Guingamp, Dinan, and Lannuon/Lannion all sous-préfectures.

There is a big out of town commercial development in Langaeg/Langueux about 2km east of the town on the N12 expressway.

[edit] External Links in French

• Saint-Brieuc
• Côtes d'Armor
• Gouët

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Saint-Brieuc

• City council website
• saint-brieuc.maville

[edit] Neighboring communes

Langueux, La Méaugon, Plérin, Ploufragan, Trégueux and Trémuson.

[edit] Demography

[edit] Transport

Coat of arms of Saint-Brieuc

Saint-Brieuc is connected by TGV Atlantique to Paris Montparnasse station.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Saint-Brieuc is twinned with Aberystwyth, Wales. Saint-Brieuc is one of the towns in Europe that hosts the IU Honors Program.

[edit] Births

Saint-Brieuc was the birthplace of:

• Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838-1889), symbolist writer
• Célestin Bouglé (1870-1940), philosopher
• Louis Guilloux (1899-1980), writer
• Patrick Dewaere (1947-1982), actor

Préfectures of Départements of France

Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) • Laon (Aisne) • Moulins (Allier) • Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) • Gap (Hautes-Alpes) • Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) • Privas (Ardeche) • Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes) • Foix (Ariège) • Troyes (Aube) • Carcassonne (Aude) • Rodez (Aveyron) • Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) • Caen (Calvados) • Aurillac (Cantal) • Angoulême (Charente) • La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) • Bourges (Cher) • Tulle (Corrèze) • Ajaccio (corse-du-Sud) • Bastia (Haute-Corse) • Dijon (Côte-d'Or) • Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor) • Guéret (Creuse) • Périgueux (Dordogne) • Besançon (Doubs) • Valence (Drôme) • Évreux (Eure) • Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) • Quimper (Finistère) • Nîmes (Gard) • Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) • Auch (Gers) • Bordeaux (Gironde) • Montpellier (Hérault) • Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) • Châteauroux (Indre) • Tours (Indre-et-Loire) • Grenoble (Isère) • Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) • Mont-de-Marsan (Landes) • Blois (Loir-et-Cher) • Saint-Étienne (Loire) • Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) • Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) - Orléans (Loiret) • Cahors (Lot) • Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) • Mende (Lozère) • Angers (Maine-et-Loire) • Saint-Lô (Manche) • Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne) • Chaumont (Haute-Marne) - Laval (Mayenne) • Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) • Bar-le-Duc (Meuse) • Vannes (Morbihan) • Metz (Moselle) • Nevers (Nièvre) • Lille (Nord) • Beauvais (Oise) • Alençon (Orne) • Calais (Pas-de-Calais) • Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) • Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) • Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) • Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) • Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) • Colmar (Haut-Rhin) • Lyon (Rhône) • Vesoul (Haute-Saône) • Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire) • Le Mans (Sarthe) • Chambéry (Savoie) • Annecy (Haute-Savoie) • Paris (Paris) • Rouen (Seine-Maritime) • Melun (Seine-et-Marne) • Versailles (Yvelines) • Niort (Deux-Sèvres) • Amiens (Somme) • Albi (Tarn) • Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) • Toulon (Var) • Avignon (Vaucluse) • La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) • Poitiers (Vienne) • Limoges (Haute-Vienne) • Épinal (Vosges) • Auxerre (Yonne) • Belfort (Territoire de Belfort) - Évry (Essonne) - Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) • Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) • Créteil (Val-de-Marne) • Cergy (Val-d'Oise)

Overseas departments
Cayenne (French Guiana) • Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) • Fort-de-France (Martinique) • Saint-Denis (Réunion)

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