Saint-Goazec

Saint-Goazec Sant-Wazeg
Commune
The Château de Trévarez
Location of Saint-Goazec
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Coordinates: 48°09′52″N 3°46′51″W / 48.1644°N 3.7808°W / 48.1644; -3.7808
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Finistère
Arrondissement	Châteaulin
Canton	Briec
Intercommunality	Haute Cornouaille
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Stéphane Guillou[1]
Area 1	33.76 km2 (13.03 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	721
• Density	21/km2 (55/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	29249 /29520
Elevation	33–295 m (108–968 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Goazec (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ɡwazɛk]; Breton: Sant-Wazeg) in commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France.

Inhabitants of Saint-Goazec are called in French Saint-Goaziens. The commune's population peaks in 1906.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,075 —     1800 898 −2.54% 1806 986 +1.57% 1821 815 −1.26% 1831 1,104 +3.08% 1836 1,135 +0.56% 1841 1,104 −0.55% 1846 1,121 +0.31% 1851 1,105 −0.29% 1856 1,053 −0.96% 1861 1,099 +0.86% 1866 1,230 +2.28% 1872 1,201 −0.40% 1876 1,307 +2.14% 1881 1,362 +0.83% 1886 1,420 +0.84% 1891 1,480 +0.83% 1896 1,555 +0.99%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,740 +2.27% 1906 1,860 +1.34% 1911 1,774 −0.94% 1921 1,605 −1.00% 1926 1,569 −0.45% 1931 1,562 −0.09% 1936 1,439 −1.63% 1946 1,510 +0.48% 1954 1,121 −3.66% 1962 1,042 −0.91% 1968 976 −1.08% 1975 845 −2.04% 1982 876 +0.52% 1990 771 −1.58% 1999 725 −0.68% 2007 705 −0.35% 2012 713 +0.23% 2019 712 −0.02%
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Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Saint-Goazec lies on the northern slope of the Montagnes Noires (french, Black Mountains). The canal de Nantes à Brest, which is the canalized river Aulne, forms the commune's northern border.

Topographic map

• Communes of the Finistère department
• Listing of the works of the atelier of the Maître de Tronoën

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saint-Goazec.

• Official website (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Mayors of Finistère Association (in French)

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