Gosné

Gosné Goneg
Commune
Town hall
Location of Gosné
Gosné Gosné
Coordinates: 48°14′49″N 1°27′49″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement	Rennes
Canton	Fougères-1
Intercommunality	Pays de Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Véronique Lepannetier-Ruffault
Area 1	18.14 km2 (7.00 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	2,051
• Density	110/km2 (290/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	35121 /35140
Elevation	53–114 m (174–374 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Gosné (Breton: Goneg, Gallo: Gosnae) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

International relations

It is twinned with Ballyheigue in County Kerry, Ireland.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	976	—
1800	886	−9.2%
1806	906	+2.3%
1821	976	+7.7%
1831	1,025	+5.0%
1836	1,025	+0.0%
1841	1,002	−2.2%
1846	1,101	+9.9%
1851	1,197	+8.7%
1856	1,237	+3.3%
1861	1,257	+1.6%
1866	1,297	+3.2%
1872	1,270	−2.1%
1876	1,225	−3.5%
1881	1,198	−2.2%
1886	1,221	+1.9%
1891	1,213	−0.7%
1896	1,161	−4.3%
1901	1,178	+1.5%
1906	1,203	+2.1%
1911	1,176	−2.2%
1921	1,033	−12.2%
1926	1,017	−1.5%
1931	986	−3.0%
1936	950	−3.7%
1946	949	−0.1%
1954	935	−1.5%
1962	918	−1.8%
1968	817	−11.0%
1975	875	+7.1%
1982	1,014	+15.9%
1990	1,195	+17.9%
1999	1,380	+15.5%
2008	1,693	+22.7%

Inhabitants of Gosné are called Gosnéens in French.

Geography

Gosné is located at 24 km (15 mi) in the North-East of Rennes and at 49 km (30 mi) in the south of the Mont Saint-Michel.

The bordering communes are Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier, Liffré, and Ercé-près-Liffré.

See also

• Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

External links

• Geography of Brittany (in French)
• The page of the commune on infobretagne.com (in French)
• French Ministry of Culture list for Gosné (in French)