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{{Short description|Commune in Brittany, France}}
{{Expand French|date=March 2024|topic=geo}}{{Infobox French commune
|name                   = Messac
|native name            = Mezeg
|image                  = Messac35 mairie.jpg
|caption                = The town hall of Messac
|image coat of arms     = Blason ville fr Messac (Ille-et-Vilaine).svg
|coordinates            = {{coord|47.8256|-1.8072|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|INSEE                  = 35176
|postal code            = 35480
|arrondissement         = Redon
|canton                 = Redon
|commune                = Guipry-Messac
|elevation min m        = 3
|elevation max m        = 89
|area km2               = 41.64
|population             = 3204
|population date        = 2018
|population footnotes   = <ref name=pop2018>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/4989724/ensemble.pdf Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2018], [[Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques|INSEE]]</ref>
}}
'''Messac''' ({{IPA|fr|mesak}}; {{langx|br|Mezeg}}; [[Gallo language|Gallo]]: ''Meczac'') is a former [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Ille-et-Vilaine]] [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany]] in northwestern [[France]]. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune [[Guipry-Messac]].<ref>[http://raa.bretagne.sit.gouv.fr/sit_1_ALK/upload/raa_35_ALK/acte/18192/update_word18192.pdf Arrêté préfectoral] 23 July 2015 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
==Population==
Inhabitants of Messac are called ''Messacois'' in French.
{{Historical populations
|align=left
|1962| 2163
|1968| 2169
|1975| 2212
|1982| 2232
|1990| 2276
|1999| 2243
|2008| 2726
}}
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==See also==
*[[Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department]]
==References==
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==External links==
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