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Belle Île

island in Morbihan, France
Landform Island Q815838

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
island, Natura 2000 site[14]
Official name
Île-de-l'Unité

Location

Country
France[11]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 47.333°, -3.187°
Located in or next to body of water
Bay of Biscay, Atlantic Ocean[12][13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Bangor, Locmaria, Le Palais, Sauzon, communauté de communes de Belle-Île-en-Mer, canton of Belle-Île, canton of Quiberon, arrondissement of Lorient, Morbihan[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Population and size

Area
+87[25]
Elevation above sea level
+63[24]
Population
+5426[17]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 5,426 GeoNames 5,293 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +5
Part of
list of islands of France[16]
Capital
Le Palais[15]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Sytin Military Encyclopedia, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18][19][20][21][22]
Different from
Belle-Isle-en-Terre[23]
Perimeter
+80[26]
🏷️ Also known as
en Belle Ile en Belle Île en Belle-Ile-en-Mer en Belle-Isle en Belle-Île-en-Mer en Île-de-l'Unité de Belle-Île de Belle-Île-en-Mer de Belle-Ile el Μπελ-Ιλ-αν-Μερ el Μπελ-Ιλ el Ιλ-ντε-λ'Υνιτέ es Belle Ile es Belle Île es Belle Ile en Mer es Belle Ile en-Mer es Belle Ile-en-Mer es Belle-Ile-en-Mer es Belle Île en Mer es Belle Île en-Mer
🔖 Identifiers · 26
VIAF cluster ID
245046711
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85013039
GND ID
4208159-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
ArGerveur.jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
03247868n
Biblissima authority ID
Amund Maarud
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
41075
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Belle-Ile-en-Mer
FactGrid item ID
Kozue Ando
Freebase ID
/m/02f26b
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1411638
GeoNames ID
3033682
Show all 26 identifiers +14
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
gerveur
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0029792
J9U entity ID
987007283279605171
Joconde discovery ID
T115-1269
Joconde location ID
T84-1294
Le Figaro tag ID
Belle-Île
Natura 2000 site ID
FR5300032
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3875773
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2500332
Pleiades ID
138660
RKD thesaurus ID
7220
Topic's main category
Category:Belle-Île-en-Mer
Vikidia article ID
fr:Belle-Île-en-Mer
Yale LUX ID
place/8427a751-5e68-4b00-91e4-853f8e898a24

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🔗 Connections
Located in the administrative territorial entity 9
Morbihan, Le Palais, Bangor, Locmaria, Sauzon, arrondissement of Lorient, canton of Quiberon, canton of Belle-Île +1 more
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
People born here 3
Jean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez, Louis Dubois, Jean Le Garrec
Located in or next to body of water 2
Atlantic Ocean, Bay of Biscay
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
People who died here 2
Jean-Baptiste Belley, Klaus Michael Grüber
← Filming location 2
Shock Treatment, Dolmen
Capital 1
Le Palais
Country 1
France
Different from 1
Belle-Isle-en-Terre
FactGrid item ID 1
Kozue Ando
Instance of 1
island
Located in this place 1
Capture of Belle Île
Part of 1
list of islands of France
Topic's main category 1
Category:Belle-Île-en-Mer
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Belle-Île-en-Mer
← Different from 1
Belle-Isle-en-Terre
← Located in/on physical feature 1
Goulphar lighthouse
← Work location 1
Theo van Doesburg
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Summary

Belle Île is an island[1].

Related Entities

Bangor Belle-Isle-en-Terre France Kozue Ando Le Palais Theo van Doesburg

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Amund Maarud
    "Created claim: Biblissima authority ID: Q29875, Import ID Biblissima V3 (details)"
  2. 19w ago · Albgr03 · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → list of islands of France
    Elevation above sea level → 63 metre
    Category for people born here → Category:Births in Belle-Île-en-Mer
    Located in or next to body of water → Bay of Biscay, Atlantic Ocean
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #38040: Remove redundant P421 statements (timezones) from islands in mainland France"
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