Brittany
Brittany is a diverse region in northwestern France and a historic country with a distinct identity, sharing much of its Celtic heritage with Cornwall and Wales, mostly known internationally for its crêpes.| Tap on the map to travel |
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Destinations
Saint-Malo
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Saint-Malo is a small walled coastal city in Brittany, France.
Vannes
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Vannes is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France.
Saint-Brieuc
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Saint Brieuc is the administrative capital of the Côtes-d'Armor departement in the region of Brittany, France.
Dinan
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Dinan is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France.
Lannion
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Lannion is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France.
Auray
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Auray is a commune in the Morbihan department, administrative region of Brittany, northwestern France.
Roscoff
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Roscoff is a commune in the arrondissement of Morlaix in the Finistère département, in the region of Brittany in France.
Douarnenez
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Douarnenez, is a commune in the French department of Finistère, region of Brittany, northwestern France.
Carnac
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Carnac is a small town in Morbihan, Brittany. Its main claim to fame are the menhirs surrounding the town.
Vitré
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Vitré is a in the département of Ille-et-Vilaine, in the region of Brittany, France.
Pontivy
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Pontivy is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France.
Montfort-sur-Meu
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Montfort-sur-Meu is a town in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany.
Breteil
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Breteil is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany.
Quiberon
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Quiberon is a town in Brittany, France. It is situated on a peninsula Presqu'île de Quiberon.
Pleumeur-Bodou
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Pleumeur-Bodou is a small commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany.
Bédée
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Bédée is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany.
Ile-aux-Moines
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Île-aux-Moines is an island in Brittany. At 7 km long and 3.5 km wide, it's the largest island in the "Golfe du Morbihan", and has 610 inhabitants.
Iffendic
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Iffendic is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany.
Talensac
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Talensac is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany.
Saint-Gonlay
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Saint-Gonlay is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany.
Molène
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Molène is an island off the west coast of Brittany and one of the Ponant Isles, making it the largest of an archipelago of twenty islands.
Belle Île
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Belle Île (officially Belle-Île-en-Mer to distinguish it from another municipality in Brittany is an island off the coast of Brittany.
Trégor
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48°43′57″N 3°27′19″W / 48.7325°N 3.4553°W Flag of Trégor since 1998Flag of Trégor from 1996 to 1998Trégor, officially the Land of Trégor is one of the nine traditional provinces of Brittany, in its northwestern area.
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Brittany
- Type: region of France with 3,120,000 residents
- Description: administrative region of France
- Neighbors: Lower Normandy, Normandy and Pays de la Loire
- Location: France, Europe
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Latitude of centre
48.1667° or 48° 10' northLongitude of centre
-2.8333° or 2° 50' westPopulation
3,120,000Elevation
91 metres (299 feet)GeoNames ID
3030293Wikidata ID
Q12130Brittany Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Bretagne
- Albanian: Bretagne
- Albanian: Bretanja
- Amharic: ብረታኝ
- Arabic: Bretagne
- Arabic: برطانية
- Arabic: بريتاني
- Aragonese: Bretanya
- Armenian: Բրետան
- Arpitan: Bretagne
- Asturian: Bertaèyn
- Asturian: Breizh
- Asturian: Bretagne
- Asturian: Bretaña
- Aymara: Bretagne suyu
- Azerbaijani: Bretan
- Balinese: Bretagne
- Basque: Bretainia
- Bavarian: Bretagne
- Belarusian: Брэтань (рэгіён)
- Belarusian: Брэтань
- Belarusian: рэгіён Брэтань
- Bengali: ব্রতাইন
- Bosnian: Bretanja
- Breton: BZH
- Breton: Breizh
- Breton: Istor Breizh
- Breton: Rannvro Breizh
- Breton: rannvro Breizh
- Bulgarian: Бретан
- Catalan: Bretanya
- Cebuano: Bretagne
- Cebuano: Britanya
- Chechen: БгӀетань
- Chinese: Région Bretagne
- Chinese: 布列塔尼大区
- Chinese: 布列塔尼大區
- Chinese: 布禮斯大區
- Chuvash: Бретань
- Cornish: Ranvro Breten Vian
- Corsican: Bretagna
- Crimean Tatar: Bretan
- Croatian: Bretanja
- Czech: Bretaň
- Danish: Bretagne
- Dimli (individual language): Bretonya
- Dutch: Bretagne (regio)
- Dutch: Bretagne
- Egyptian Arabic: بريتانى
- English: Breizh
- English: Bretagne
- English: Brittany Region
- English: Region of Brittany
- Esperanto: Bretonio
- Estonian: Bretagne
- Extremaduran: Bretaña
- Finnish: Bretagne
- French: BZH
- French: Bretagne
- French: Région Bretagne
- French: région Bretagne
- French: région administrative de Bretagne
- Galician: Bertaèyn
- Galician: Breizh
- Galician: Bretagne
- Galician: Bretaña
- Georgian: ბრეტანი
- German: Bretagne
- Gothic: 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌰 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳
- Greek: Βρετάνη
- Greek: Περιοχή της Βρετάνης
- Hakka Chinese: Brittany
- Hausa: Brittany
- Hebrew: ברטאן
- Hindi: ब्रतान्य
- Hungarian: Bretagne
- Icelandic: Bretanía
- Ido: Bretonia
- Indonesian: Bretagne
- Indonesian: Brittany
- Interlingua: Britannia
- Interlingue: Bretagne
- Irish: Briotáin
- Irish: an Bhriotáin
- Italian: Bretagna
- Japanese: ブリタニー地域圏
- Japanese: ブルターニュ地域圏
- Japanese: ブルターニュ地方
- Japanese: ブレイス
- Japanese: ブレイス地域圏
- Javanese: Bretagne
- Kabyle: Bretagne
- Kashubian: Bretaniô
- Kazakh: Бретань
- Kirghiz: Бретан
- Korean: 브르타뉴
- Ladin: Bretania (region aministrativa)
- Ladin: Bretania
- Ladino: Bretanya
- Latin: Armorica
- Latin: Britannia Minor
- Latin: Britannia minor
- Latvian: Bretaņa
- Limburgan: Bretagne
- Lithuanian: Bretanė
- Luxembourgish: Bretagne
- Macedonian: Бретања
- Malay: Bretagne
- Malayalam: ബ്രിറ്റനി
- Manx: Yn Vritaan
- Marathi: ब्रत्तान्य
- Min Nan Chinese: Région Bretagne
- Mingrelian: ბრეტანი
- Mongolian: Бретань
- Mongolian: Бретань муж
- Narom: Brétangne
- Northern Frisian: Bretagne
- Northern Luri: بریتانی
- Northern Sami: Bretagne
- Norwegian: Bretagne
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bretagne
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Bretagne
- Occitan (post 1500): Bretanha
- Ossetian: Бретань
- Pampanga: Bretagne
- Persian: برتاین
- Persian: بریتانی
- Picard: Bertanne
- Piemontese: Brëtagna
- Polish: Bretania
- Portuguese: Bertaèyn
- Portuguese: Breizh
- Portuguese: Bretagne
- Portuguese: Bretanha
- Portuguese: Região da Bretanha
- Quechua: Bretagne
- Romanian: Bretania
- Russian: Бретань
- Sardinian: Bretagna
- Scots: Breetany
- Scots: Region o Breetany
- Scottish Gaelic: A Bhreatainn Bheag
- Serbian: Бретања
- Serbo-Croatian: Bretanja
- Sicilian: Britagna
- Slovak: Bretónsko
- Slovenian: Bretanija
- Slovenian: Bretanja
- Spanish: Bretaña
- Swahili: Bretagne
- Swedish: Bretagne
- Swiss German: Bretagne
- Tagalog: Bretanya
- Tahitian: Peretāne Iti
- Tamil: பிரித்தானி
- Tatar: Бретань
- Tatar: Бретань ярымутравы
- Thai: แคว้นเบรอตาญ
- Turkish: Bretonya
- Ukrainian: Бретань
- Upper Sorbian: Bretanja
- Urdu: بریتانیہ
- Uzbek: Bretan
- Venetian: Bretagna
- Vietnamese: Bretagne
- Vlaams: Bretagne
- Walloon: Burtaegne
- Waray (Philippines): Bretagne
- Welsh: Breizh
- Welsh: Bretagne
- Western Frisian: Bretanje
- Western Panjabi: برٹنی
- Wu Chinese: 布列塔尼大区
- Yue Chinese: 布禮斯大區
- Zeeuws: Bretagne
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Brittany. Photo: Spendeau, CC BY-SA 3.0.