Guipavas

Guipavas (Breton: Gwipavaz) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The writer Maurice Polard (born 1932) is from Guipavas.

Guipavas

Gwipavaz
Commune
Guipavas, seen from West
Coat of arms
Location of Guipavas
Guipavas
Guipavas
Coordinates: 48°26′03″N 4°23′58″W
CountryFrance
RegionBrittany
DepartmentFinistère
ArrondissementBrest
CantonGuipavas
IntercommunalityBrest Métropole
Government
 • Mayor (2014–2020) Gurvan Moal
Area
1
44.13 km2 (17.04 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
14,482
 • Density330/km2 (850/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
29075 /29490
Elevation0–131 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.

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.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1793 2,905—    
1800 3,547+22.1%
1806 3,845+8.4%
1821 5,688+47.9%
1831 5,332−6.3%
1836 5,108−4.2%
1841 5,312+4.0%
1846 5,520+3.9%
1851 6,047+9.5%
1856 6,042−0.1%
1861 6,356+5.2%
1866 6,356+0.0%
YearPop.±%
1872 6,641+4.5%
1876 6,802+2.4%
1881 7,077+4.0%
1886 7,247+2.4%
1891 8,339+15.1%
1896 5,174−38.0%
1901 5,221+0.9%
1906 5,238+0.3%
1911 5,061−3.4%
1921 5,002−1.2%
1926 4,624−7.6%
1931 4,562−1.3%
YearPop.±%
1936 4,894+7.3%
1946 5,532+13.0%
1954 6,105+10.4%
1962 6,610+8.3%
1968 7,346+11.1%
1975 8,959+22.0%
1982 10,425+16.4%
1990 11,956+14.7%
1999 12,588+5.3%
2008 13,771+9.4%

Breton language
gollark: What? That adds more complexity for no gain. It's a worse model.
gollark: It is entirely valid to say "we don't know". It's not valid to say "we don't know, so let's just postulate yet ANOTHER step in this process with no evidence".
gollark: A god of some sort *could* exist, but there isn't good evidence for them.
gollark: I mean, most of the "gods" we think about are suspiciously humanlike. And human minds are complicated. The universe is complicated, but easier to describe; people have it down onto T-shirts now (described in very dense mathy notation).
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See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. (in French) Ofis ar Brezhoneg: Enseignement bilingue



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