Plœmeur

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Plœmeur

Total population

18,591

Air quality index

30Good

Elevation-1 m

Land area39.72 km²

Coordinates47.74°, -3.43°

Demographic figures from INSEE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Ploemeur, sometimes written instead as Plœmeur, is a commune in the Morbihan department in the region of Brittany in north-western France. It is a western suburb of Lorient.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Air quality

Current readings from Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS European reanalysis).

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Henri Dupuy de Lôme

French naval architect (1816-1885)

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Bernard Deschamps

French ice hockey player

Élodie Guégan

French middle distance runner

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Alain Jégou

French poet (1948-2013)

Nathalie Appéré

French politician

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Daniel Ligou

French historian & academic

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Eugène Le Coupanec

French politician (1857-1905)

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Hugues Serraf

French journalist

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Jean-Pierre Guillemot

French bicycle racer

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Louis Le Hunsec

Catholic archbishop (1878–1954)

Mickaël Le Bihan

French association football player

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Robert Ligou

French poet (1921-1983)

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Tugdual Kalvez

French writer

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Diego Yesso

French footballer

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Eugène Remilly

French politician (1925-2017)

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Max Valrey

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Bretagne

• Larmor-Plage
  2.8 mi away · pop. 8,318
• Port-Louis
  4.1 mi away · pop. 2,679
• Guidel-Plages
  4.9 mi away
• Clohars-Carnoët
  8.3 mi away · pop. 4,651
• Kervignac
  9 mi away · pop. 6,966
• Arzano
  11.5 mi away · pop. 1,419
• Étel
  12 mi away · pop. 2,055
• Penquesten
  12.7 mi away
• Lanvaudan
  13.7 mi away · pop. 807
• Languidic
  14.2 mi away · pop. 8,047
• Pont-Aven
  17 mi away · pop. 2,813
• Plouharnel
  17.4 mi away · pop. 2,261

Browse all places in Bretagne →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

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Gallery

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