Brest, France (fra)

Brest, France

Brest, France ranks 880th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Cheltenham, Englewood, New Jersey, and Neuchâtel. Memorable people born in Brest, France include Alain Robbe-Grillet, Pierre Brice, and Gonzalo Higuaín. Memorable people who died in Brest, France include Christophe, Jean Delumeau, and Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu. Brest, France has been the birth place of many soccer players, and writers and the death place of many singers, and historians. Brest, France is located in France.

Brest is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second largest French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental France. With 139,456 inhabitants (2020), Brest forms Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area, ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 25th most populous city in France (2019); moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany. Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the préfecture of the department is in the much smaller town of Quimper. Read more on Wikipedia