page_title: Finistère
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Finistère / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Carte du département Finistère Légende&#160;:
context_page_description: Finistère is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany.
context_section_description: The largest population center in Finistère is Brest. Other large towns in the department include Quimper (the capital), Concarneau,  Morlaix, Carhaix, Quimperlé and Douarnenez. Finistère includes the island of Ushant (Eusa in Breton, Ouessant in French).
  Finistère is the westernmost department of Metropolitan France and can also claim to be the "most coastal" department in Metropolitan France. Of its 279 communes, 118 are located on the coast. Its total coastline of approximately 1,250 km (776.71 mi) accounts for almost a quarter of the entire Brittany coast-line.
  The abers, rugged fjord-like inlets on the north coast, are a notable feature of the landscape.
  The westernmost point of continental France, known as the Pointe de Corsen, extends from the northwestern tip of Finistère. About 40 kilometres to the south (as the crow flies) is the slightly less westerly, but rugged and isolated, headland of Pointe du Raz.
caption: Map of Finistère
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