Facts and figures
Bretagne is home to 3,011,000 inhabitants (figures for 2004)
Map of BretagneDistribution per departments (number of inhabitants - figures for 2004)
| Department | Population | Department | Population |
| 22 Côtes d’Armor: | 562 000 | 35 Ille & Vilaine: | 906 000 |
| 29 Finistère: | 871 000 | 56 Morbihan: | 672 000 |
The main towns of Bretagne (number of inhabitants - figures for 2004)
| Brest: 210 000 | Quimper: 77 000 |
| Lannion: 19 351 | Rennes: 272 000 |
| Lorient: 116 000 | Saint-Brieuc: 86 000 |
| Morlaix: 16 701 | Vannes: 60 000 |
Job distribution by sector
| Sector | Number of jobs in Bretagne | % of Breton jobs | % of French jobs |
| Agriculture and fishing | 79 600 | 6,6% | 3,6% |
| Industry | 208 900 | 17,4% | 17.0% |
| Building & Construction | 80 600 | 6,7% | 6.0% |
| Tertiary sector | 831 400 | 69,3% | 73.4% |
| Total | 1 200 500 | 100% | 100% |
Road, railway and airport networks
Bretagne enjoys direct intercity train connections by high-speed train (TGV).
Every hour, once or twice an hour at rush hours, there is a train scheduled from Bretagne to Paris.
Road distance and train journey time to Paris :
(1 kilometer = 0,62 mile)
| Distance | TGV Journey time | |
| Brest → Paris | 593 km | 4h30 (3 hours in 2012) |
| Lannion → Paris | 515 km | 4h15 |
| Lorient → Paris | 502 km | 3h40 |
| Morlaix → Paris | 537 km | 3h50 |
| Quimper → Paris | 564 km | 4h20 |
| Rennes → Paris | 350 km | 2h15 |
| Saint-Brieuc → Paris | 450 km | 3h15 |
| Saint-Malo → Paris | 405 km | 3h05 |
| Vannes → Paris | 495 km | 3h10 |
Airports
Brest
| Domestic flights | Lyons - Marseille - Nantes - Nice - Paris (13 flights per day) |
| International flights | Birmingham - Dakar - Djerba - Exeter - Fort-de-France - Las Palmas - London - Louxor - Marrakech - Southampton - Tenerife |
Rennes
| Domestic flights | Bordeaux - Lyon - Marseille - Montpellier - Mulhouse Nice - Paris (3 flights per day) - Strasbourg - Toulouse |
| International flights | Madrid, Southampton, Manchester, Exeter, Edimbourg, Newcastle, Belfast, Dublin, Cork |
Lorient
| Domestic flights | Lyons - Paris (4 flights per day) |
| International flights | Cork - Galway - Kerry - London - Waterford |
Last update: 13 December 2010
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