Brest
Brest is a port city in the French department of Finistère, Brittany.
Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second largest French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental France with 142,346 inhabitants (2023), Brest forms Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area, ranking third behind Nantes and Rennes in Brittany, and the 26th most populous city in France (2023); moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany. Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the préfecture of the department is in the much smaller town of Quimper.
Getting around Brest the local way
- Get inIf you are already in Terespol and need to cross over to Brest, you can walk over to the border crossing and "hitchhike" across with one of the cars that is already towards front of the line.
- Get aroundTaxis are also easy to order and "marshrutkas" also operate throughout the city.
From Wikivoyage: Brest (Belarus), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-04.
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