Saint-Jean-sur-Couesnon

Saint-Jean-sur-Couesnon Sant-Yann-ar-C'houenon
Part of Rives-du-Couesnon
The church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, in Saint-Jean-sur-Couesnon
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Coordinates: 48°17′29″N 1°21′57″W / 48.2914°N 1.3658°W / 48.2914; -1.3658Coordinates: 48°17′29″N 1°21′57″W / 48.2914°N 1.3658°W / 48.2914; -1.3658
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement	Fougères-Vitré
Canton	Fougères-1
Commune	Rives-du-Couesnon
Area 1	18.32 km2 (7.07 sq mi)
Population  (2017)[1]	1,180
• Density	64/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	35140
Elevation	47–122 m (154–400 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Jean-sur-Couesnon (Breton: Sant-Yann-ar-C'houenon) is a former commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Rives-du-Couesnon.^[2]

Geography[]

Saint-Jean-sur-Couesnon is located 33 km (21 mi) northeast of Rennes and 45 km (28 mi) south of Mont Saint-Michel.

The neighboring communes are Saint-Marc-sur-Couesnon, La Chapelle-Saint-Aubert, Vendel, Saint-Georges-de-Chesné, Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier, and Mézières-sur-Couesnon.

Population[]

See also[]

• Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint-Jean-sur-Couesnon.

• Geography of Brittany
• The page of the commune on infobretagne.com
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)

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