Côtes-d'Armor lies on the Northern coast of Brittany, it has a beautiful rugged coastline with steep cliffs and is dotted with quaint, medieval towns. Côtes-d'Armor 22 is part of the current administrative region of Bretagne and is surrounded by the departments of Finistère, Morbihan, and Ille-et-Vilaine, with the English Channel on the north. The residents of the department are called Costarmoricains. The western fraction of the department is part of the traditionally Breton-speaking. Côtes d'Armor consists of an undulating plateau with three ranges of hills in the south. Bréhat and other small islands lie off the steep, rocky coast.