Brittany is an administrative region of France located in the northwest of the country. Brittany, with its capital at Rennes, used to include the city of Nantes, but it later became the capital of the new Pays de la Loire region, to serve as its economic center. Brittany, along with Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Wales, and Cornwall, is considered to be one of six Celtic nations, as the Bretons are ethnically Celtic. For this reason, Brittany was historically separate from the Kingdom of France for centuries, although it was united with France in 1532 as a province with special privileges, which were abolished centuries later with the French Revolution. The region had a population of 4,550,418 people in 2012.
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Location of Brittany
Population in 1861