Finistère
Finistère
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Prefecture building of the Finistère department, in Quimper | |
Location of Finistère in France | |
| Coordinates: 48°15′N 04°00′W / 48.250°N 4.000°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Brittany |
| Prefecture | Quimper |
| Subprefectures | Brest Châteaulin Morlaix |
| Government | |
| • President of the Departmental Council | Maël de Calan (DVD) |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,733 km2 (2,600 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | |
• Total | 927,912 |
| • Rank | 24th |
| • Density | 140/km2 (360/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | FR-29 |
| Department number | 29 |
| Largest city | Brest |
| Arrondissements | 4 |
| Cantons | 27 |
| Communes | 277 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2 | |
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Finistère (/ˌfɪnɪˈstɛər/, French: [finistɛʁ] ⓘ; Breton: Penn-ar-Bed [ˌpɛnarˈbeːt]) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. Its prefecture is Quimper and its largest city is Brest. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.