Plouasne

Commune in Brittany, France

Plouasne Plouan
Commune
An aerial view of Plouasne
Coat of arms
Location of Plouasne
(2020–2026)		Michel Daugan^[1]
Area ¹	33.61 km² (12.98 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	1,729
• Density	51/km² (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	22208 /22830
Elevation	17–181 m (56–594 ft)
Website	https://www.plouasne.fr
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Plouasne (French pronunciation: [pluan]; Breton: Plouan) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.

The inhabitants of Plouasne are known in French as plouasnais.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	1,811	—
1968	1,726	−4.7%
1975	1,653	−4.2%
1982	1,553	−6.0%
1990	1,440	−7.3%
1999	1,358	−5.7%
2008	1,511	+11.3%

Education

There is a public primary school, and a private school named École Privée Saint-Joseph.^[3]

The community has Collège La Gautrais, a junior high school.^[4] Circa 2014 the school banned usage of mobile phones, which was before Emmanuel Macron, in 2018, proposed a national such ban.^[5]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ "Les écoles" (in French). Plouasne. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
^ "Home". Collège La Gautrais. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
^ Chrisafis, Angelique (22 June 2018). "'We don't really need phones': the French school that banned mobiles". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 February 2024.