Page 18 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Brittany

16  INTRODUCING BRIT T AN Y Harwich Den Haag
UNITED KINGDOM
Rotterdam
Putting Brittany on the Map Reading London NETHERLANDS Essen Göttingen Halle
Ramsgate Dortmund Kassel
Oostende Antwerpen
Surrounded by 2,863 km (1,779 miles) of coastline, Portsmouth Dover Düsseldorf Erfurt
Brittany covers an area of 34,000 sq km (13,125 sq miles), Poole Newhaven Calais Dunkerque
or 6 per cent of French territory. It has over 4 million Bruxelles Köln
inhabitants (7 per cent of the French pop ulation) including Lille BELGIUM Bonn
Loire-Atlantique, and a population density of 119 per sq km Spain E n g l i s h C h a n n e l Liège GERMANY
(308 per sq mile). Over the last 25 years, Brittany’s population Abbeville Douai Koblenz
has increased faster than the national average. The western- Dieppe Amiens Frankfurt
most point of France, Brittany has become an economic hub Cherbourg Charleville- LUXEM- Würzburg
BOURG
of international importance. Its growing prosperity is Le Havre Rouen Mézièrs Luxembourg
paralleled by a strong cultural identity. Nuremberg
Plymouth, Plymouth, Mannheim
Ireland Weymouth Caen Reims
Saarbrücken
Roscoff Paris Metz Karlsruhe
St-Malo Rhein Stuttgart
Brest Alençon Nancy Donau
Chartres Seine Strasbourg
Brittany Troyes
Rennes München
Key Lorient Le Mans
Orléans
Area covered in this guide Mulhouse
Auxerre
Motorway St- Loire Bodensee
Nazaire Angers
Major road Tours Basel Innsbruck
Nantes Loire Dijon
International border Besançon Zürich AUSTRIA
Bourges
Ferry route Bern
Railway Gijón FRANCE
SWITZERLAND
Les Sables-
d’Olonne Poitiers Mâcon Bolzano
Lac Léman
La Rochelle
Genève
Ba y of Clermont- Trento
Bisca y Limoges Ferrand Lyon Chambéry Aosta Bergamo
0 km 100 Saint Milano
Etienne
0 miles 100
Brive-la-
Gaillarde Torino
Bordeaux Grenoble Po
Piacenza
Dordogne Valence Parma
Arcachon
NORWAY
SWEDEN Rhône Gap I T A LY
Rodez Cuneo Genova
NOR TH Millau
Garonne
SEA DENMARK Savona
UNITED
KINGDOM Albi Avignon La Spezia
REP. OF Nîmes
IRELAND NETHERLANDS POLAND Biarritz Montpellier Nice Monaco Pisa
GERMANY Toulouse Aix-en-Provence Livorno
BELGIUM
CZECH Pau Cannes
REPUBLIC Tarbes Sète
SLOVAKIA Carcassonne Marseille
FRANCE
SWITZ. AUSTRIA HUNGARY Narbonne Toulon
A TLANTIC SLOV. Pamplona Piombino
OCEAN CROATIA
BOSNIA SERBIA
HERZ. Perpignan
ITALY Andorra Bastia
MONTEN. KOS. Ile Rousse
MAC. S P AIN ANDORRA Mediter r anean Sea
ALBANIA
PORTUGAL Huesca
SP AIN GREECE Ebro Corsica
Girona Ajaccio
Zaragoza
Lleida Porto-Vecchio Sardinia
Barcelona
For keys to symbols see back flap
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