Ploemeur

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Country France Department Morbihan Intercommunality Pays de Lorient Area 39.72 km² Arrondissement Lorient		Region Brittany Canton Ploemeur Population (1999) 18,304 Local time Wednesday 3:33 AM

Weather 7°C, Wind SW at 26 km/h, 94% Humidity

Ploemeur (Plañvour in Breton) is a commune in the Morbihan department in the region of Brittany in north-western France.

Map of Ploemeur, France

The inhabitants are called the Ploemeurois.

The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 18 April 2006.

The current name of the city of Ploemeur comes from the old Breton Plo Meur meaning "Big Parish".

Ploemeur is close to Lorient (Breton: An Oriant), a sub-prefecture of Morbihan.

Stanislas Dupuy de Lôme (1816 in the Château de Soye - †1885), who built the first armored battleship.

Yoann Gourcuff, born on 11 July 1986, is a footballer of Olympique Lyonnais and of the French national team.

Diego Yesso footballer

Ploemeur is twinned with:

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