Paimpont

Paimpont is a commune in the department in in northwestern . The name is a compound of Old Breton pen "head" and the Latin borrowing pont "bridge" and is first attested in the 9th century in the Latinised form Caput Pontis and then in 870 CE as Penpont.
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  • Type: Village with 1,780 residents
  • Description: commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, France
  • Postal code: 35380
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Notre-Dame (Paimpont) and Paimpont forest.

Church
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is a church.

Forest
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, also known as Brocéliande Forest, is a temperate forest located around the village of Paimpont in the department of in Brittany, France.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Paimpont.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brocéliande and Forges de Paimpont.

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The forest of , or forest of Paimpont is 40 km to the west of , in Ille-et-Vilaine in . It is part of the district of .

Hamlet
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is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Paimpont.

Village
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is a commune in the department of in northwestern . The commune is listed as a Village étape. is situated 6 km east of Paimpont.

Paimpont

Latitude
48.01936° or 48° 1′ 10″ north
Longitude
-2.17353° or 2° 10′ 25″ west
Population
1,780
Elevation
158 metres (518 feet)
Open location code
8CWV2R9G+PH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 297738120
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2988794
Wiki­data ID
Q152741
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Paimpont” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Paimpont”
  • Aragonese: “Paimpont”
  • Aragonese: “Pempont”
  • Arpitan: “Paimpont”
  • Asturian: “Paimpont”
  • Bambara: “Paimpont”
  • Basque: “Paimpont”
  • Bavarian: “Paimpont”
  • Breton: “Pempont”
  • Cajun French: “Paimpont”
  • Catalan: “Paimpont”
  • Cebuano: “Paimpont”
  • Chechen: “Пемпон”
  • Chinese: “Paimpont”
  • Chinese: “潘蓬”
  • Corsican: “Paimpont”
  • Croatian: “Paimpont”
  • Czech: “Paimpont”
  • Danish: “Paimpont”
  • Dutch: “Paimpont”
  • Esperanto: “Paimpont”
  • Estonian: “Paimpont”
  • Faroese: “Paimpont”
  • Finnish: “Paimpont”
  • French: “Paimpont”
  • Friulian: “Paimpont”
  • Galician: “Paimpont”
  • Galician: “Pemport”
  • Galician: “Penpont”
  • German: “Paimpont”
  • German: “Wald von Paimpont”
  • Greek: “Παιμπόν”
  • Hungarian: “Paimpont”
  • Icelandic: “Paimpont”
  • Ido: “Paimpont”
  • Indonesian: “Paimpont”
  • Interlingua: “Paimpont”
  • Interlingue: “Paimpont”
  • Irish: “Paimpont”
  • Italian: “Paimpont”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Paimpont”
  • Kabyle: “Paimpont”
  • Kalaallisut: “Paimpont”
  • Kazakh: “Пемпон”
  • Kölsch: “Paimpont”
  • Kongo: “Paimpont”
  • Kurdish: “Paimpont”
  • Ladin: “Paimpont”
  • Latin: “Paimpont”
  • Latin: “Panis Pontis”
  • Latvian: “Paimpont”
  • Ligurian: “Paimpont”
  • Limburgan: “Paimpont”
  • Lithuanian: “Paimpont”
  • Low German: “Paimpont”
  • Luxembourgish: “Paimpont”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Paimpont”
  • Malagasy: “Paimpont”
  • Malay: “Paimpont”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Paimpont”
  • Minangkabau: “Paimpont”
  • Narom: “Paimpont”
  • Neapolitan: “Paimpont”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Paimpont”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Paimpont”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Paimpont”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pempont”
  • Papiamento: “Paimpont”
  • Picard: “Paimpont”
  • Piemontese: “Paimpont”
  • Polish: “Paimpont”
  • Portuguese: “Paimpont”
  • Prussian: “Paimpont”
  • Romagnol: “Paimpont”
  • Romanian: “Paimpont”
  • Romansh: “Paimpont”
  • Russian: “Пемпон”
  • Sardinian: “Paimpont”
  • Scots: “Paimpont”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Paimpont”
  • Serbian: “Paimpont”
  • Sicilian: “Paimpont”
  • Slovak: “Paimpont”
  • Spanish: “Paimpont”
  • Swahili: “Paimpont”
  • Swedish: “Paimpont”
  • Swiss German: “Paimpont”
  • Tatar: “Пемпон”
  • Turkish: “Paimpont”
  • Ukrainian: “Пемпон”
  • Uzbek: “Paimpont”
  • Venetian: “Paimpont”
  • Vietnamese: “Paimpont”
  • Vlaams: “Paimpont”
  • Volapük: “Paimpont”
  • Walloon: “Paimpont”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Paimpont”
  • Welsh: “Paimpont”
  • Welsh: “Pempont”
  • Wolof: “Paimpont”
  • Yue Chinese: “Paimpont”
  • Zulu: “Paimpont”
  • “Paimpont”

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