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Morbihan
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| Morbihan | |
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| Coat of arms of the Morbihan department | |
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| Department number: | 56 |
| Region: | Bretagne |
| Prefecture: | Vannes |
| Subprefectures: | Lorient Pontivy |
| Arrondissements: | 3 |
| Cantons: | 42 |
| Communes: | 261 |
| President of the General Council: | Joseph-François Kergueris |
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| Population | Ranked 32nd |
| -1999 | 643,873 |
| Population density: | 94/km² |
| Land area¹: | 6823 km² |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². | |
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Morbihan is a department in the northwest of France named after the Morbihan (small sea in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastline.
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Morbihan is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Brittany.
Morbihan is part of the current region of Bretagne and is surrounded by the departments of Finistère, Côte-d'Armor, Ille-et-Vilaine, and Loire-Atlantique, and the Atlantic Ocean on the southwest.
The Gulf of Morbihan has many islands: 365 according to legend, but, in reality, between 30 and 40, according to how they are counted. There are also many islets which are too small to be built. Of these islands, all but two are privet: l'Île aux Moines and l'Île D'Arz. The others are privately owned, some by movie stars or fashion designers.
In the department of Morbihan, but outside the Gulf, there are four inhabited islands:
- Meaban, just outside the Port du Crouesty is an ornithological rreserve and it is forbidden to alight there.
The Breton language is an important issue, with many advocating bilingual education.
The megalithic alignments of Carnac are situated in Morbihan.
- Cantons of the Morbihan department
- Communes of the Morbihan department
- Arrondissements of the Morbihan department
- (French) Prefecture website
- (French) General council website
- (French) Cultural Heritage
- (French) Tourism website
- (English) Hiking in Morbihan
