Ushant
Ushant is a French island at the southwestern end of the English Channel that marks the westernmost point of metropolitan France. It belongs to Brittany and in medieval times, Léon.
- Type: Locality with 842 residents
- Description: French commune in Finistère, Brittany
- Also known as: “29155” and “Ouessant”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ushant Airport and Creach Point Light.
Ushant Airport
Aerodrome
Creach Point Light
Lighthouse
Phare du Créac'h or Kreac'h lighthouse or Créac'h lighthouse is a lighthouse in Ushant, France. It is the most powerful in Europe and one of the most powerful in the world.
Ushant
- Category: commune of France
- Location: Arrondissement de Brest, Finistère, Brittany, France, Europe
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Latitude
48.4553° or 48° 27′ 19″ north
Longitude
-5.0975° or 5° 5′ 51″ west
Population
842
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
8CWPFW43+42
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Ushant” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ouessant”
- Arabic: “أوشا”
- Aragonese: “Eusa”
- Aragonese: “Ouessant”
- Arpitan: “Ouessant”
- Asturian: “Ouessant”
- Bambara: “Ouessant”
- Basque: “Eusa”
- Basque: “Ouessant”
- Basque: “Ushant”
- Bavarian: “Ouessant”
- Belarusian: “Уэсан”
- Breton: “Eusa”
- Buginese: “Ushant”
- Cajun French: “Ouessant”
- Catalan: “Ouessant”
- Cebuano: “Ouessant (munisipyo sa Pransiya)”
- Cebuano: “Ouessant”
- Chechen: “Уессан”
- Chinese: “Ushant”
- Chinese: “韋桑”
- Chinese: “韦桑”
- Croatian: “Ouessant”
- Czech: “Ouessant”
- Danish: “Ouessant”
- Dutch: “Eusa”
- Dutch: “Ouessant (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Ouessant”
- Dutch: “Ushant”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوشا”
- Esperanto: “Ouessant”
- Estonian: “Ouessant”
- Faroese: “Ouessant”
- Finnish: “Ouessant”
- French: “localité de Ouessant”
- French: “Ouessant”
- Friulian: “Ouessant”
- Galician: “Ouessant”
- German: “Ouessant”
- German: “Ushant”
- Greek: “Ουεσάν”
- Hebrew: “אושנט”
- Hungarian: “Ouessant”
- Icelandic: “Ouessant”
- Ido: “Ouessant”
- Indonesian: “Ushant”
- Interlingua: “Ouessant”
- Interlingue: “Ouessant”
- Irish: “Ouessant”
- Italian: “Ouessant”
- Italian: “Ushant”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Ouessant”
- Japanese: “アシャント岬”
- Japanese: “ウェサン島”
- Kabyle: “Ouessant”
- Kalaallisut: “Ouessant”
- Kazakh: “Уессан”
- Kongo: “Ouessant”
- Korean: “우에상”
- Korean: “웨상”
- Kurdish: “Ushant”
- Ladin: “Ushant”
- Latin: “Ouessant”
- Latin: “Ouxisama”
- Latvian: “Ouessant”
- Ligurian: “Ouessant”
- Limburgan: “Ouessant”
- Lithuanian: “Ouessant”
- Low German: “Ouessant”
- Luxembourgish: “Ouessant”
- Macedonian: “Уесан”
- Mainfränkisch: “Ouessant”
- Malagasy: “Ushant”
- Malay: “Ushant”
- Manx: “Enez Eusa”
- Manx: “Eusa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ushant”
- Minangkabau: “Ouessant”
- Narom: “Ouessant”
- Neapolitan: “Ouessant”
- Northern Frisian: “Île d’Ouessant”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouessant”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ouessant”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ushant”
- Norwegian: “Ouessant”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Eusa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ouessant”
- Papiamento: “Ouessant”
- Persian: “یوشانت”
- Picard: “Ouessant”
- Piemontese: “Ouessant”
- Polish: “Ouessant”
- Polish: “Ushant”
- Portuguese: “Ouessant”
- Prussian: “Ouessant”
- Romagnol: “Ouessant”
- Romanian: “Ouessant”
- Romansh: “Ouessant”
- Russian: “Уэсан”
- Russian: “Уэссан”
- Sardinian: “Ouessant”
- Scots: “Ushant”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ouessant”
- Serbian: “Ouessant”
- Sicilian: “Ouessant”
- Slovak: “Ouessant (obec)”
- Slovak: “Ouessant”
- Slovenian: “Lampaul”
- Slovenian: “Ouessant”
- Spanish: “Ouessant”
- Spanish: “Ushant”
- Swahili: “Ouessant”
- Swedish: “Ouessant”
- Swiss German: “Ouessant”
- Tatar: “Уессан”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ouessant”
- Turkish: “Ouessant”
- Ukrainian: “Уесан”
- Ukrainian: “Уессан”
- Urdu: “وشانٹ”
- Uzbek: “Ouessant”
- Venetian: “Ouessant”
- Vietnamese: “Ouessant”
- Vietnamese: “Ushant”
- Vlaams: “Ouessant”
- Volapük: “Ouessant”
- Walloon: “Ouessant”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ouessant”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ushant”
- Welsh: “Ynys Eusa”
- Wolof: “Ouessant”
- Yue Chinese: “Ushant”
- Zulu: “Ouessant”
- “Ouessant”
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