Morbihan
Morbihan is a department in Brittany on the coast of the Bay of Biscay. It is noted for its Carnac stones, which predate and are more extensive than the Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire, England.Photo: Fab5669, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lorient and Vannes.
Vannes
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Vannes is a commune in the French department of Morbihan, Brittany, northwestern mainland France. It was founded over 2,000 years ago.
Auray
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Auray is a commune in the Morbihan department, administrative region of Brittany, northwestern France. Inhabitants of Auray are called Alréens and Alreiz.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Carnac and Pontivy.
Carnac
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Carnac is a small town in Morbihan, Brittany. Its main claim to fame are the menhirs surrounding the town. In 2025 these stones were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Pontivy
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Pontivy is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France. It lies at the confluence of the river Blavet and the Canal de Nantes à Brest. Inhabitants of Pontivy are called Pontivyens in French.
Quiberon
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Quiberon is a town in Brittany, France. It is situated on a peninsula Presqu'île de Quiberon. In France it is well-known as summer spa-resort.
Ile-aux-Moines
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Île-aux-Moines is an island in Brittany. At 7 km long and 3.5 km wide, it's the largest island in the "Golfe du Morbihan", and has 610 inhabitants. The island is pretty, full of flowers, and has old stones and amazing landscapes.
Belle Île
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Belle Île (officially Belle-Île-en-Mer to distinguish it from another municipality in Brittany is an island off the coast of Brittany.
Morbihan
- Type: department of France with 783,000 residents
- Description: French department
- Neighbors: Côtes-d’Armor, Finistère, and Ille-et-Vilaine
- Location: Brittany, France, Europe
Population
783,000Wikidata ID
Q12642
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Morbihan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Morbihan”
- Albanian: “Morbihan”
- Arabic: “مربيان”
- Arabic: “مُربِيَان”
- Arabic: “موربيهان”
- Aragonese: “Mor-Bihan”
- Armenian: “Մորբիան”
- Arpitan: “Morbihan”
- Asturian: “Morbihan”
- Azerbaijani: “Morbian”
- Basque: “Morbihan”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Марбіян”
- Belarusian: “Марбіян”
- Bengali: “মরবিহান”
- Breton: “Mor-Bihan”
- Bulgarian: “Морбиан”
- Catalan: “Ar Mor-Bihan”
- Catalan: “Morbihan”
- Cebuano: “Morbihan”
- Chechen: “МогӀбиан”
- Chechen: “Морбиан”
- Chinese: “Morbihan”
- Chinese: “莫尔比昂省”
- Chinese: “莫爾比昂”
- Chuvash: “Морбиан”
- Czech: “Morbihan”
- Danish: “Morbihan”
- Dutch: “Morbihan”
- Esperanto: “Morbihan”
- Estonian: “Morbihani departemang”
- Finnish: “Morbihan”
- French: “Morbihan”
- Galician: “Morbihan”
- Georgian: “მორბიანი”
- German: “Département Morbihan”
- German: “FR-56”
- German: “Morbihan”
- Greek: “Μορμπιάν”
- Gujarati: “મોરબીહાન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Morbihan-sén”
- Hebrew: “מורביאן”
- Hindi: “मोरबिहन”
- Hungarian: “Morbihan”
- Icelandic: “Morbihan”
- Indonesian: “Morbihan”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Morbihan”
- Irish: “Morbihan”
- Italian: “Morbihan”
- Japanese: “モルビアン県”
- Kabyle: “Morbihan”
- Kannada: “ಮೊರ್ಬಿಹಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Морбиан”
- Kongo: “Morbihan”
- Korean: “모르비앙주”
- Ladin: “Morbihan”
- Ladino: “Morbihan”
- Ladino: “מורביעאן”
- Latin: “Mariculum”
- Latin: “Morbihanum”
- Latvian: “Morbiāna”
- Limburgan: “Morbihan”
- Lithuanian: “Morbihanas”
- Lombard: “Morbihan”
- Low German: “Morbihan”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Morbihan”
- Macedonian: “Морбиjан”
- Macedonian: “Морбијан”
- Malagasy: “Morbihan”
- Malay: “Morbihan”
- Manx: “Mor-Bihan”
- Marathi: “मॉर्बियां”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Morbihan”
- Northern Frisian: “Morbihan (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Morbihan”
- Northern Sami: “Morbihan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Morbihan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Morbihan”
- Norwegian: “Morbihan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Morbihan”
- Ossetian: “Морбиан”
- Pampanga: “Morbihan”
- Persian: “موربیان”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment dël Morbihan”
- Polish: “Morbihan”
- Portuguese: “Morbihan”
- Romanian: “departamentul Morbihan”
- Romanian: “Morbihan”
- Russian: “Морбиан”
- Scots: “Morbihan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Mor-Bihan”
- Serbian: “Морбијан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Morbihan”
- Sinhala: “මොර්බිහාන්”
- Slovak: “Morbihan”
- Slovenian: “Morbihan”
- South Azerbaijani: “موربیان”
- Spanish: “Morbihan”
- Swahili: “Morbihan”
- Swedish: “Morbihan”
- Swiss German: “Morbihan”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Морбиан”
- Tamil: “மோர்பிஹன்”
- Tatar: “Морбиаң”
- Telugu: “మోర్బిహాన్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดมอร์บีอ็อง”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Morbihan”
- Turkish: “Morbihan”
- Ukrainian: “Морбіан”
- Urdu: “موربیاں”
- Uzbek: “Morbihan (departament)”
- Uzbek: “Morbihan”
- Venetian: “Morbihan”
- Vietnamese: “Morbihan”
- Vlaams: “Morbihan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Morbihan”
- Welsh: “Mor-Bihan”
- Western Frisian: “Morbihan”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع موربیہان”
- Wu Chinese: “莫尔比昂省”
- Yue Chinese: “莫爾比昂”
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