Brittany
Finistère
Arrondissement de Brest

Brest

Brest is a city on the west Atlantic coast of . It has a long history of navigation. There are very large tides here.
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  • Type: City with 140,000 residents
  • Description: port city in the Finistère department, Brittany, France
  • Also known as: “Brest, France”
  • Postal codes: 29200 and 29200

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brest station and Tour Tanguy.

Railway station
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is the railway station serving Brest, France. It is the western terminus of the Paris–Brest railway. The new station, built above the town's harbour in 1932 on the site of its 1865 predecessor, includes a tall clock tower and a semi circle passenger hall.

Museum
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The , Bastille de Quilbignon or Tour de la Motte Tanguy is a medieval tower on a rocky motte beside the river in Brest, France. Probably built during the Breton War of Succession, it faces the château de Brest and is now accessed by a road off the square Pierre Péron, at one end of the pont de Recouvrance.

Stadium
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The , formerly known as the Stade de l'Armoricaine, is a multi-use in Brest, France. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Stade Brestois 29.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Recouvrance and Porte Tourville.

Suburb
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is the section of the city of Brest, France, on the right bank of the River . The popular and historically-Breton quarter is in contrast to the largely-Francophone quarter of Brest-même or Brest-proper, on the left bank.

Locality
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is a locality.

Locality
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is a locality.

Brest

Latitude
48.3905° or 48° 23′ 26″ north
Longitude
-4.486° or 4° 29′ 10″ west
Population
140,000
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
IATA airport code
BES
United Nations Location Code
FR BES
Open location code
8CWQ9GR7+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 823582966
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3030300
Wiki­data ID
Q12193
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Brest” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Brest”
  • Albanian: “Brest”
  • Arabic: “برست”
  • Arabic: “بريست”
  • Aragonese: “Brest”
  • Armenian: “Բրեստ”
  • Arpitan: “Brest”
  • Asturian: “Brest”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brest”
  • Bambara: “Brest”
  • Basque: “Brest”
  • Bavarian: “Brest”
  • Belarusian: “Брэст”
  • Bengali: “ব্রেস্ত”
  • Breton: “Brest”
  • Breton: “Vrest”
  • Buginese: “Brest, Perancis”
  • Bulgarian: “Брест”
  • Cajun French: “Brest”
  • Catalan: “Brest”
  • Cebuano: “Brest”
  • Chechen: “БгӀест (Франци)”
  • Chechen: “БгӀест”
  • Chinese: “Brest”
  • Chinese: “布雷斯特”
  • Chinese: “比斯特”
  • Chuvash: “Брест (Франци)”
  • Chuvash: “Брест”
  • Cornish: “Brest”
  • Corsican: “Brest”
  • Croatian: “Brest”
  • Czech: “Brest”
  • Danish: “Brest”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Brest”
  • Dutch: “Brest (Frankrijk)”
  • Dutch: “Brest”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بريست”
  • Esperanto: “Brest”
  • Esperanto: “Bresto”
  • Estonian: “Brest”
  • Faroese: “Brest”
  • Finnish: “Brest”
  • French: “Brest”
  • Friulian: “Brest”
  • Galician: “Brest, Bretaña”
  • Galician: “Brest”
  • Georgian: “ბრესტი”
  • German: “Brest”
  • Greek: “Βρέστη”
  • Greek: “Μπρεστ”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રેસ્ટ”
  • Hausa: “Brest”
  • Hebrew: “ברסט”
  • Hindi: “ब्रैस्त”
  • Hungarian: “Brest”
  • Icelandic: “Brest”
  • Ido: “Brest”
  • Indonesian: “Brest, Finistère”
  • Indonesian: “Brest, Perancis”
  • Indonesian: “Brest”
  • Interlingua: “Brest”
  • Interlingue: “Brest”
  • Irish: “Brest na Briotáine”
  • Irish: “Brest”
  • Italian: “Brest”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Brest”
  • Japanese: “ブレスト (フランス)”
  • Japanese: “ブレスト”
  • Kabyle: “Brest”
  • Kalaallisut: “Brest”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೆಸ್ಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Брест”
  • Kongo: “Brest”
  • Korean: “브레스트”
  • Kurdish: “Brest, France”
  • Kurdish: “Brest”
  • Ladin: “Brest”
  • Latin: “Brestia”
  • Latvian: “Bresta”
  • Ligurian: “Brest”
  • Limburgan: “Brest”
  • Lingala: “Brest”
  • Lithuanian: “Brestas”
  • Lombard: “Brest”
  • Low German: “Brest”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brest”
  • Macedonian: “Брест”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Brest”
  • Malagasy: “Brest”
  • Malay: “Brest, Perancis”
  • Malay: “Brest”
  • Maltese: “Brest”
  • Manx: “Brest, y Vritaan”
  • Marathi: “ब्रेस्त”
  • Mazanderani: “برست”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Brest”
  • Minangkabau: “Brest”
  • Moksha: “Брэст”
  • Narom: “Brest”
  • Neapolitan: “Brest”
  • Nepali: “ब्रेस्ट”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brest”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brest”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brest i Frankrike”
  • Norwegian: “Brest”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brèst”
  • Papiamento: “Brest”
  • Persian: “برست، فرانسه”
  • Persian: “برست”
  • Picard: “Brest”
  • Piemontese: “Brest”
  • Polish: “Brest”
  • Portuguese: “Brest”
  • Prussian: “Brest”
  • Romagnol: “Brest”
  • Romanian: “Brest, Franța”
  • Romanian: “Brest”
  • Romansh: “Brest”
  • Russian: “Брест (Франция)”
  • Russian: “Брест”
  • Sardinian: “Brest”
  • Scots: “Brest, Fraunce”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Brest”
  • Serbian: “Brest”
  • Serbian: “Брест”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brest, Francuska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brest”
  • Sicilian: “Brest”
  • Silesian: “Brest”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රෙස්ට්”
  • Slovak: “Brest”
  • Slovenian: “Brest, Francija”
  • Slovenian: “Brest”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برست”
  • Spanish: “Brest”
  • Swahili: “Brest, Finistère”
  • Swahili: “Brest”
  • Swedish: “Brest, Finistère”
  • Swedish: “Brest”
  • Swiss German: “Brest”
  • Tamil: “பர்ஸ்ட்”
  • Tamil: “பிரெஸ்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Брест”
  • Telugu: “బ్రెస్ట్”
  • Thai: “แบร็สต์”
  • Tibetan: “བེ་རེ་སི་ཊི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Brest”
  • Turkish: “Brest, Fransa”
  • Turkish: “Brest”
  • Turkmen: “Brest”
  • Twi: “Brest”
  • Ukrainian: “Брест”
  • Urdu: “بریسٹ، فرانس”
  • Uzbek: “Brest”
  • Venetian: “Brest”
  • Veps: “Brest (Francii)”
  • Veps: “Brest”
  • Vietnamese: “Brest, Finistère”
  • Vietnamese: “Brest”
  • Vlaams: “Brest”
  • Volapük: “Brest”
  • Walloon: “Brest”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brest, Finistère”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brest”
  • Welsh: “Brest”
  • Western Armenian: “Պրեսթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Brest”
  • Western Panjabi: “بریسٹ”
  • Wolof: “Brest”
  • Wu Chinese: “布雷斯特 (法国)”
  • Wu Chinese: “布雷斯特（法国）”
  • Yue Chinese: “比斯特”
  • Zulu: “Brest”

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