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Gosné Gosnae (Gallo) Goneg (Breton)
Commune
Town hall
Location of Gosné
Gosné Gosné
Coordinates: 48°14′49″N 1°27′49″W / 48.2469°N 1.4636°W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement	Rennes
Canton	Fougères-1
Intercommunality	Liffré-Cormier Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean Dupire[1]
Area 1	18.14 km2 (7.00 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	2,098
• Density	120/km2 (300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	35121 /35140
Elevation	53–114 m (174–374 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Gosné (French pronunciation: [ɡone]; Breton: Goneg; Gallo: Gosnae) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

It is twinned with Ballyheigue in County Kerry, Ireland.

Inhabitants of Gosné are called Gosnéens in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 976 —     1800 886 −1.37% 1806 906 +0.37% 1821 976 +0.50% 1831 1,025 +0.49% 1836 1,025 +0.00% 1841 1,002 −0.45% 1846 1,101 +1.90% 1851 1,197 +1.69% 1856 1,237 +0.66% 1861 1,257 +0.32% 1866 1,297 +0.63% 1872 1,270 −0.35% 1876 1,225 −0.90% 1881 1,198 −0.44% 1886 1,221 +0.38% 1891 1,213 −0.13% 1896 1,161 −0.87%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,178 +0.29% 1906 1,203 +0.42% 1911 1,176 −0.45% 1921 1,033 −1.29% 1926 1,017 −0.31% 1931 986 −0.62% 1936 950 −0.74% 1946 949 −0.01% 1954 935 −0.19% 1962 918 −0.23% 1968 817 −1.92% 1975 875 +0.98% 1982 1,014 +2.13% 1990 1,195 +2.07% 1999 1,380 +1.61% 2007 1,622 +2.04% 2012 1,851 +2.68% 2017 1,991 +1.47%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Gosné is located at 24 km (15 mi) in the North-East of Rennes and at 49 km (30 mi) in the south of the Mont Saint-Michel.

The bordering communes are Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier, Liffré, and Ercé-près-Liffré.

• Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

• Geography of Brittany (in French)
• The page of the commune on infobretagne.com (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)