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Saint-Brieuc
France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and comprises various overseas islands and territories which are located in other regions. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. At 674,843 square kilometers, France is the world's 40th-largest country after Myanmar. France is a member of The European Union and Paris is the capital of this nation. The sole official language of France is French. Since prehistoric times, France has been a crossroads of trade, migrations, and invasions.
Saint-Brieuc is a commune in France, situated in Cotes-d'Armor and in the Bretagne region. The inhabitants are called Briochins. Saint-Brieuc is named after a Welsh monk St. Briocus, who evangelized the region in the 6th century and established an oratory there. Saint-Brieuc gives its name to Pays de Saint-Brieuc, one of the 9 eveches de Bretagne, common administrative divisions before the French Revolution.
The land area of the city is 21.88 square kilometers. The population of the city as of 1999 was 46,087 and the density in the city as of 1999 was 2,106 per square kilometer. The town is located by the English Channel, in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc. The Gouet and Gouedic rivers flow though Saint-Brieuc. Other towns of notable size in the department are Guingamp and Dinan. There is a big-out of the town commercial development in Langueux at about 2 kilometers to the east of the town on the N12 expressway.
Saint-Brieuc is one of France’s most popular destinations, and is well known for the quantity of cultural related attractions and monuments that the city has embraced. It is one of the preeminent, historical and potential tourism destinations that are located in the Saint-Brieuc province of France.
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