Finistère
Finistère in Brittany is the westernmost French department. Its name comes from the Latin from "end of the earth". The abers, rugged fjord-like inlets on the north coast, are a notable feature of the landscape.
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Finistère
- Department of France with 928,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 136 metres (446 feet)
- Description: French department
- Also known as“Département du Finistère”“Finisterre”
- Neighbors
- Location
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Latitude of center
48.2522° or 48° 15′ 8″ north
Longitude of center
-3.9926° or 3° 59′ 34″ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Finistère” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Finistère”
- Albanian: “Finistère”
- Arabic: “فنستير”
- Aragonese: “Finisterre”
- Armenian: “Ֆինիստեր”
- Arpitan: “Finistèro”
- Asturian: “Finistère”
- Azerbaijani: “Finister”
- Basque: “Finistère”
- Bavarian: “Département Finistère”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Фіністэр”
- Belarusian: “Фіністэр (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Фіністэр”
- Bengali: “ফিনিস্তে”
- Breton: “Penn-ar-Bed”
- Bulgarian: “Финистер”
- Catalan: “Finisterre”
- Cebuano: “Finistère”
- Chechen: “ФинистегӀ”
- Chinese: “菲尼斯泰尔省”
- Chinese: “菲尼斯泰爾省”
- Chuvash: “Финистер”
- Cornish: “Pedn-an-Bës”
- Czech: “Finistère”
- Danish: “Finistère”
- Dutch: “Finistere”
- Dutch: “Finistère”
- Esperanto: “Finistère”
- Estonian: “Finistère’i departemang”
- Estonian: “Finistère”
- Finnish: “Finistère”
- French: “département du Finistère”
- French: “Finistere”
- French: “Finistère”
- Galician: “Finistère”
- Georgian: “ფინისტერი”
- German: “Département Finistère”
- German: “Finistère”
- Greek: “Φινιστέρ”
- Gujarati: “ફિનિસ્તર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Finistère-sén”
- Hebrew: “פיניסטר”
- Hindi: “फिनिस्तेर”
- Hindi: “फ़िनिस्तेर”
- Hungarian: “Finistère”
- Icelandic: “Finistère”
- Indonesian: “Finistère”
- Interlingua: “Departimento de Finistere”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Finistere”
- Irish: “Penn-ar-Bed”
- Italian: “Finistère”
- Japanese: “フィニステール県”
- Kabyle: “Finistère”
- Kannada: “ಫಿನಿಸ್ಟ್ರೆ”
- Kazakh: “Финистер”
- Kongo: “Finistère”
- Korean: “피니스테르주”
- Ladin: “Finistère”
- Ladino: “Finistère”
- Latin: “Finis Terrae”
- Latvian: “Finistēra”
- Limburgan: “Finistère”
- Lithuanian: “Finisteras”
- Lombard: “Finistère”
- Low German: “Finistère”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Finistère”
- Macedonian: “Финистер”
- Malagasy: “Finistère”
- Malay: “Finistère”
- Manx: “Penn-ar-Bed”
- Marathi: “फिनिस्तर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Finistère”
- Mongolian: “Финистер (департамент)”
- Mongolian: “Финистер”
- Northern Frisian: “Finistère (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Finistère”
- Northern Sami: “Finistère”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Finistère”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Finistère”
- Norwegian: “Finistère”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Finistèrra”
- Ossetian: “Финистер”
- Pampanga: “Finistère”
- Persian: “فینیستر”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Finistère”
- Piemontese: “Finistère”
- Polish: “Finistère”
- Portuguese: “departamento de Finistère”
- Portuguese: “Finistère”
- Portuguese: “Finisterra”
- Romanian: “departamentul Finistère”
- Romanian: “Finistère”
- Russian: “Финистер”
- Scots: “Finistère”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Penn-ar-Bed”
- Serbian: “Финистер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Finistère”
- Sinhala: “ෆිනිස්ටේරේ”
- Slovak: “Finistère”
- Slovenian: “Finistère”
- Spanish: “Finisterre”
- Swahili: “Finistère”
- Swedish: “Finistère”
- Swiss German: “Département Finistère”
- Swiss German: “Finistère”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Финистер”
- Tamil: “பினிஸ்ட்டர்”
- Telugu: “ఫినిస్టియర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดฟีนิสแตร์”
- Turkish: “Finistère”
- Ukrainian: “Фіністер”
- Urdu: “فینیستیر”
- Uzbek: “Finistère”
- Venetian: “Finistère”
- Vietnamese: “Finistère”
- Vlaams: “Finistère”
- Waray (Philippines): “Finistère”
- Welsh: “Finistere”
- Welsh: “Penn-ar-Bed”
- Western Frisian: “Finistère”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع فنستر”
- Wu Chinese: “菲尼斯泰尔省”
- Yue Chinese: “菲尼斯泰爾”
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