Pleumeur-Bodou

Pleumeur-Bodou (French pronunciation: [plømœʁ bɔdu]; Breton: Pleuveur-Bodoù) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.

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Commune
Saint Uzec menhir
Coat of arms
Location of Pleumeur-Bodou
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Coordinates: 48°46′36″N 3°30′59″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Côtes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Lannion
Canton	Perros-Guirec
Intercommunality	Lannion-Trégor Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre Terrien[1]
Area 1	26.71 km2 (10.31 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	3,809
• Density	140/km2 (370/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	22198 /22560
Elevation	0–106 m (0–348 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Inhabitants of Pleumeur-Bodou are called pleumeurois in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 2,151 —     1800 1,745 −2.94% 1806 1,907 +1.49% 1821 2,199 +0.95% 1831 2,360 +0.71% 1836 2,472 +0.93% 1841 2,465 −0.06% 1846 2,525 +0.48% 1851 2,650 +0.97% 1856 2,737 +0.65% 1861 2,864 +0.91% 1866 3,030 +1.13% 1872 3,034 +0.02% 1876 2,970 −0.53% 1881 2,778 −1.33% 1886 3,011 +1.62% 1891 2,955 −0.37% 1896 3,175 +1.45%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 3,019 −1.00% 1906 3,257 +1.53% 1911 3,099 −0.99% 1921 2,949 −0.49% 1926 3,037 +0.59% 1931 2,752 −1.95% 1936 2,766 +0.10% 1946 2,920 +0.54% 1954 2,544 −1.71% 1962 2,545 +0.00% 1968 2,542 −0.02% 1975 2,941 +2.10% 1982 3,453 +2.32% 1990 3,677 +0.79% 1999 3,825 +0.44% 2007 3,996 +0.55% 2012 4,005 +0.05% 2017 3,925 −0.40%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Sister town

Pleuveur-Bodoù is twinned with Crosshaven, a village in Cork Harbour, Ireland.

See also

• Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
• Telstar

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Pleumeur-Bodou, EHESS (in French).
4. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

External links

• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)