Ille-et-Vilaine
Ille-et-Vilaine
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The river Vilaine flowing through Rennes | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
Location of Ille-et-Vilaine in France | |
| Coordinates: 48°10′N 01°40′W / 48.167°N 1.667°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Brittany |
| Prefecture | Rennes |
| Subprefectures | Fougères Redon Saint-Malo |
| Government | |
| • President of the Departmental Council | Jean-Luc Chenut (PS) |
| Area | |
• Total | 6,775 km2 (2,616 sq mi) |
| Population (2023) | |
• Total | 1,120,666 |
| • Rank | 21st |
| • Density | 165.4/km2 (428.4/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | FR-35 |
| Department number | 35 |
| Arrondissements | 4 |
| Cantons | 27 |
| Communes | 333 |
| ^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2 | |
Ille-et-Vilaine (French: [il e vilɛn] ⓘ; Gallo: Ill-e-Vilaenn; Breton: Il-ha-Gwilen) is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named after its two main rivers, the Ille and the Vilaine. It had a population of 1,079,498 in 2019.