Guipavas

Guipavas Gwipavaz
Commune
Guipavas, seen from West
Coat of arms
Location of Guipavas
(2020–2026)		Fabrice Jacob[1]
Area 1	44.13 km2 (17.04 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	15,460
• Density	350/km2 (910/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	29075 /29490
Elevation	0–131 m (0–430 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Guipavas (French pronunciation: [ɡipava]; Breton: Gwipavaz) 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.

Population

Inhabitants of Guipavas are called in French Guipavasiens.

Breton language

• In 2008, 4.39% of primary-school children attended bilingual schools, where Breton language is taught alongside French.^[5]

See also

• Brest Bretagne Airport
• Communes of the Finistère department
• Yann Larhantec
• List of the works of Bastien and Henry Prigent

References

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Mayors of Finistère Association (in French)

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