Guipavas

Guipavas Gwipavaz
Commune
Guipavas, seen from West
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 48°26′03″N 4°23′58″W / 48.4342°N 4.3994°W / 48.4342; -4.3994Coordinates: 48°26′03″N 4°23′58″W / 48.4342°N 4.3994°W / 48.4342; -4.3994
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Finistère
Arrondissement	Brest
Canton	Guipavas
Intercommunality	Brest Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Fabrice Jacob
Area 1	44.13 km2 (17.04 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	14,842
• Density	340/km2 (870/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.^[2]

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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