Plomeur

Plomeur

Ploveur
Plomeur Ploveur
Commune
	The church and the calvary in Plomeur
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 47°50′28″N 4°17′00″W / 47.8411°N 4.2833°WCoordinates: 47°50′28″N 4°17′00″W / 47.8411°N 4.2833°W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Finistère
Arrondissement	Quimper
Canton	Plonéour-Lanvern
Intercommunality	Pays Bigouden Sud
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Ronan Crédou
Area 1	29.69 km2 (11.46 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	3,800
• Density	130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	29171 /29120
Elevation	0–37 m (0–121 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Plomeur (Breton: Ploveur) is a commune in the Bigouden region of Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

Plomeur is situated between the larger communes of Penmarc'h to the South-West, Guilvinec and Treffiagat to the South, as well as Pont-l'Abbé to the East.

The beaches on the are shared with the community of Tréguennec to the north and Pors-Carn (part of the commune of Penmarc'h) to the south.

The beach is divided by the Pointe de la Torche, a promontory and rocky granite outcropping as well as a prehistoric settlement and burial site registered as a historic monument.

Population[]

Inhabitants of Plomeur are called in French Plomeurois.

Breton language[]

The municipality launched a linguistic plan concerning the Breton language through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on April 28, 2006.

In 2009, 30.71% of primary-school children attended bilingual schools.^[3]

References[]

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
^ (in French) Ofis ar Brezhoneg: Enseignement bilingue Archived 2008-11-14 at the Wayback Machine