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Finistère

Finistère in 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

Population
928,000
Wiki­data ID
Q3389
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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: “Finistère”
  • Chinese: “菲尼斯泰尔省”
  • Chinese: “菲尼斯泰爾”
  • 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: “Finistère”
  • Galician: “Finistère”
  • Georgian: “ფინისტერი”
  • German: “Département Finistère”
  • German: “Finistère”
  • Greek: “Φινιστέρ”
  • Gujarati: “ફિનિસ્તર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Finistère-sén”
  • Hebrew: “פיניסטר”
  • Hindi: “फिनिस्तेर”
  • Hungarian: “Finistère”
  • Icelandic: “Finistère”
  • Indonesian: “Finistère”
  • 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: “Finistère”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Финистер”
  • Tamil: “பினிஸ்ட்டர்”
  • Telugu: “ఫినిస్టియర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดฟีนิสแตร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Finistère”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Finistère”. Photo: Erwan Martin, CC BY 2.0.