Geography

The largest population centre in Finistère is Brest. Other large towns in the department increase Quimper the capital, Concarneau, Morlaix, Carhaix, Quimperlé & Douarnenez. Finistère includes the island of Ushant Eusa in Breton, Ouessant in French.

Finistère is the westernmost department of Metropolitan France & can also claim to be the "most coastal" department in Metropolitan France. Of its 279 communes, 118 are located on the coast. Its sum coastline of about 1,250 km 776.71 mi accounts for nearly a quarter of the entire Brittany coast-line.

The abers, rugged fjord-like inlets on the north coast, are a notable feature of the landscape.

The westernmost segment of continental France, call as the Pointe de Corsen, extends from the northwestern tip of Finistère. approximately 40 kilometres to the south as the crow flies is the slightly less westerly, but rugged and isolated, headland of Pointe du Raz.