Plouguin

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Plouguin
Plougin
Location of Plouguin
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CountryFrance
RegionBrittany
DepartmentFinistère
ArrondissementBrest
CantonPloudalmézeau
IntercommunalityPlabennec et des Abers
Government
 • Mayor (2014–2020) Roger Talarmain
Area
1
31.02 km2 (11.98 sq mi)
Population
 (2008)
2,074
 • Density67/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
29196 /29830
Elevation0–82 m (0–269 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Plouguin (Plougin in Breton) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

It lies 20 km (12 mi) northwest of Brest, about 7 km (4.3 mi) from the English Channel in the far west of the Leon peninsula.

Population

Inhabitants of Plouguin are called in French Plouguinois.

Saint Winwaloe

Plouguin is considered to have been (about 460) the birthplace of Saint Winwaloe, and his supposed place of birth, a feudal hillock, is still pointed out.

International relations

Plouguin is twinned with the town of Newport in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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