Ille-et-Vilaine

Ille-et-Vilaine is the eastern-most department in , centred on the city of Rennes. It is named after two rivers, the Ille and the Vilaine, which meet in Rennes.
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is a French commune on the Côte d'Émeraude of . Its beaches and mild climate make it a holiday destination. With its international film festival, villas, sumptuous hotels and casino, is regarded as one of the most prestigious seaside resorts in all of France.

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is a town in the département of Ille-et-Vilaine, in the region of , . lies on the edge of Brittany, near Normandy Maine and Anjou.

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is a town in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany. It is in northwest France, 20 km from and surrounded by , , , , , , and .

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is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in . The Meu River forms the commune's southwestern border. The town has 3,502 inhabitants and stretches over 1,470 hectares.

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is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in . It's 20 km on the RN12 road from to . It is 20 km from and is surrounded by , , , , , , .

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is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in . The Meu River goes through the town. It is 20 km from and is surrounded by , , , , , , .

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is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in . The Meu river is all of the commune's eastern border. Located at 20 km west of Rennes in the perimeter of the second suburb of Rennes, is crossed from the West to the East by the…

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is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany. The town of is part of the county of Montfort-sur-Meu and of the town of .

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is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in . The Meu river goes through the town. There are 280 inhabitants in and the territory stretches over 926 hectares.

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is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in . The commune of is part of county. It comes under the control of .

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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 .

Ille-et-Vilaine

Latitude of center
48.1667° or 48° 10′ north
Longitude of center
-1.5° or 1° 30′ west
Population
1,110,000
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
Geo­Names ID
3012849
Wiki­data ID
Q12549
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ille-et-Vilaine” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Albanian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Arabic: “إل إت فيليان”
  • Arabic: “إيل وفيلان”
  • Aragonese: “Il-ha-Gwilen”
  • Armenian: “Իլ և Վիլեն”
  • Arpitan: “Ila-et-Vilègne”
  • Asturian: “Ille y Vilaine”
  • Asturian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Azerbaijani: “İl və Vilen”
  • Balinese: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Basque: “Ille eta Vilaine”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Іль і Вілен”
  • Belarusian: “Іль і Вілен”
  • Bengali: “ইল্লে-এট-ভিলাইন”
  • Breton: “Il-ha-Gwilen”
  • Breton: “Il-ha-Gwilum”
  • Bulgarian: “Ил е Вилен”
  • Catalan: “Ille i Vilaine”
  • Cebuano: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Chechen: “Иль а, Вилен а”
  • Chechen: “Иль а”
  • Chinese: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Chinese: “伊勒-維萊訥”
  • Chinese: “伊勒-維連省”
  • Chinese: “伊勒-维莱讷省”
  • Chuvash: “Иль тата Вилен”
  • Czech: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Dagbani: “35”
  • Danish: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Dutch: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايل-اى-ڤيلين”
  • Esperanto: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Estonian: “Ille-et-Vilaine’i departemang”
  • Finnish: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • French: “Département d’Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • French: “FR-35”
  • French: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Galician: “Ille e Vilaine”
  • Georgian: “ილი და ვილენი”
  • German: “Département Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • German: “FR-35”
  • German: “Il-ha-Gwilen”
  • German: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Greek: “Ιλ-ε-Βιλαίν”
  • Gujarati: “ઈલે-એટ-વિલૈન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ille-et-Vilaine-sén”
  • Hebrew: “איל ווילן”
  • Hindi: “इल-ए-विलेन”
  • Hindi: “इले-एट-विलैन”
  • Hungarian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Icelandic: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Indonesian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Irish: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Italian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Japanese: “イル＝エ＝ヴィレーヌ県”
  • Kabyle: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Kannada: “ಇಲೆ-ಎಟ್-ವಿಲೇನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Иль және Вилен”
  • Kongo: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Korean: “일에빌렌주”
  • Ladin: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Ladino: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Latin: “Ella et Vicenonia”
  • Latin: “Illa et Vicinonia”
  • Latvian: “Ila un Vilēna”
  • Limburgan: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Lithuanian: “Ilis ir Vilenas”
  • Lombard: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Low German: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Macedonian: “Ил и Вилен”
  • Malagasy: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Malay: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Manx: “Il-ha-Gwilen”
  • Marathi: “इल-ए-व्हिलेन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Northern Sami: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Norwegian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ille et Vilaine”
  • Ossetian: “Иль æмæ Вилен”
  • Pampanga: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Persian: “ایل ئه ویلن”
  • Persian: “ایل-ا-ویلن”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment d’Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Polish: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Portuguese: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Romanian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Russian: “Иль и Вилен”
  • Scots: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Il-ha-Gwilen”
  • Serbian: “Ил и Вилен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Sinhala: “ඉල්ලෙ-එට්-විලයිනේ”
  • Slovak: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Slovenian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Spanish: “Ille y Vilaine”
  • Spanish: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Swahili: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Swedish: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Ил ва Вилен”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Ил и Вилен”
  • Tamil: “இல்லே -எட் -விலைனே”
  • Telugu: “ఇల్లె-ఎట్-విలేన్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอีเลวีแลน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Turkish: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Ukrainian: “Іль і Вілен”
  • Urdu: “ایل-اے-ویلن”
  • Uzbek: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Venetian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Vietnamese: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Vlaams: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Welsh: “Il-ha-Gwilen”
  • Welsh: “Îl-ha-Gwilun”
  • Western Frisian: “Ille-et-Vilaine”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع الے ولیں”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊勒-维莱讷省”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊勒-維萊訥”
  • “Q12549”

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