Brest
Brest is a city on the west Atlantic coast of France. It has a long history of navigation. There are very large tides here.Photo: Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: City with 141,000 residents
- Description: port city in the Finistère department, Brittany, France
- Postal codes: 29200 and 29200
Notable Places in the Area
Seehund
Seehund, also known as Type XXVII, was a midget submarine built by Nazi Germany during World War II.Brest station
Photo: AirScott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Brest station is the railway station serving Brest, France.
Abeille Bourbon
Photo: Ludo29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Abeille Bourbon is a high seas emergency tow vessel, 80 metres long with a tractive power of 200 tonnes-force, a crew of 12, designed by Norwegian naval architect Sigmund Borgundvåg.
Localities in the Area
Recouvrance
Photo: S. DÉNIEL, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Recouvrance is the section of the city of Brest, France, on the right bank of the River Penfeld.
Brest
- Categories: commune of France, big city and locality
- Location: Arrondissement de Brest, Finistère, Brittany, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.3905° or 48° 23' 26" northLongitude
-4.486° or 4° 29' 10" westPopulation
141,000Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)IATA airport code
BESUnited Nations Location Code
FR BESOpen Location Code
8CWQ9GR7+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 823582966OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3030300Wikidata ID
Q12193Brest Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Brest
- Afrikaans: Brest
- Albanian: Brest
- Arabic: Brest, Finistère
- Arabic: برست
- Arabic: بريست
- Aragonese: Brest
- Armenian: Բրեստ
- Arpitan: Brest
- Asturian: Brest
- Azerbaijani: Brest (Fransa)
- 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
- Corsican: Brest
- Croatian: Brest
- Czech: Brest
- Danish: Brest
- Dimli (individual language): Brest
- Dutch: Brest (Frankrijk)
- Dutch: Brest
- Egyptian Arabic: بريست
- English: Brest, France
- 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, Perancis
- Indonesian: Brest
- Interlingua: Brest
- Interlingue: Brest
- Irish: Brest
- Irish: Brest na Briotáine
- 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
- 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 (Finistère)
- Northern Frisian: Brest
- Norwegian: Brest
- Norwegian Bokmål: Brest
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Brest i Frankrike
- Occitan (post 1500): Brèst
- Papiamento: Brest
- Persian: برست
- Persian: برست، فرانسه
- 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
- 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
- Vlaams: Brest
- Volapük: Brest
- Walloon: Brest
- Waray (Philippines): Brest, Finistère
- Welsh: Brest
- Western Armenian: Պրեսթ
- Western Frisian: Brest
- Western Panjabi: بریسٹ
- Wolof: Brest
- Wu Chinese: 布雷斯特 (法国)
- Yue Chinese: 比斯特
- Zulu: Brest
- 布雷斯特(法国)
Other Places Named Brest
Localities in the Area
- Centre VilleSuburb
- Coat ar GuévenQuarter
- Saint-MichelQuarter
- KéroriouNeighborhood
- Porte de la CorderieLocality
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