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Somme

The Somme is a department of , located in the north of the country and named after the . It is part of the region. It is bordered by and to the north, to the east, to the south and to the southwest.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Amiens Cathedral and Stade de la Licorne.

Church
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The Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens, or simply , is a Catholic cathedral. The cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Amiens. It is situated on a slight ridge overlooking the River Somme in , the administrative capital of the Picardy region of France, some 120 kilometres north of Paris.

Stadium
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is a multi-use stadium in , France. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Amiens SC. The stadium is able to hold 12,097 people and was built in 1999.

Museum
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The is the main museum of and Picardy, in . It is located at 48, rue de la République, Amiens. Its collections include artifacts ranging from prehistory to the 19th century, and form one of the largest regional museums in France.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Amiens and Dreuil-lès-Amiens.

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is the capital of the northern region of . As well as its own attractions, the city makes a practical base from which to explore the area of the First World War's Western Front located nearby.

Village
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is a commune in the Somme department in in northern .

Village
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is a commune in the Somme department in in northern . is situated 6 km southwest of Somme.

Somme

Latitude
49.9314° or 49° 55′ 53″ north
Longitude
2.2764° or 2° 16′ 35″ east
Population
566,000
Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)
Open location code
8FX4W7JG+HH
Geo­Names ID
2974304
Wiki­data ID
Q12770
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Somme” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Somme (département)”
  • Afrikaans: “Somme”
  • Albanian: “Somme”
  • Arabic: “سوم”
  • Aragonese: “Somme”
  • Armenian: “Սոմ”
  • Arpitan: “Soma”
  • Arpitan: “Some”
  • Asturian: “Somme”
  • Azerbaijani: “Somma”
  • Basque: “Somme”
  • Bavarian: “Département Somme”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Сома”
  • Belarusian: “Сома (дэпартамент)”
  • Belarusian: “Сома”
  • Bengali: “সোম্যে”
  • Breton: “Somme”
  • Bulgarian: “Сом”
  • Catalan: “Somme”
  • Cebuano: “Somme”
  • Chechen: “Сомма”
  • Chinese: “Somme”
  • Chinese: “索姆”
  • Chinese: “索姆省”
  • Chuvash: “Сомма”
  • Czech: “Somme”
  • Danish: “Somme”
  • Dutch: “Somme (departement)”
  • Dutch: “Somme”
  • Esperanto: “Somme”
  • Estonian: “Somme’i departemang”
  • Finnish: “Somme”
  • French: “Département de la Somme”
  • French: “FR-80”
  • French: “Somme”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Somme”
  • Galician: “Somme”
  • Georgian: “სომა”
  • German: “Département Somme”
  • German: “FR-80”
  • German: “Somme”
  • Greek: “Σομ”
  • Gujarati: “સોમે”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Somme”
  • Hebrew: “סום”
  • Hindi: “सोमे”
  • Hungarian: “Somme”
  • Indonesian: “Somme”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Somme”
  • Irish: “Somme”
  • Italian: “dipartimento della Somme”
  • Italian: “Somme”
  • Japanese: “ソンム県”
  • Kabyle: “Somme”
  • Kannada: “ಸೊಮ್ಮೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Сомма”
  • Kongo: “Somme”
  • Korean: “솜주”
  • Ladin: “Somme”
  • Ladino: “Somme”
  • Latin: “Samara”
  • Latin: “Sumina”
  • Latvian: “Somma”
  • Limburgan: “Somme”
  • Lithuanian: “Soma”
  • Lombard: “Somme”
  • Low German: “Somme”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Somme”
  • Macedonian: “Сома”
  • Malagasy: “Somme”
  • Malay: “Somme”
  • Marathi: “सोम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Somme”
  • Northern Frisian: “Somme (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Somme”
  • Northern Sami: “Somme”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Somme”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Somme”
  • Norwegian: “Somme”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sòma”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Somme”
  • Ossetian: “Соммæ (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Соммæ”
  • Pampanga: “Somme”
  • Persian: “سم (فرانسه)”
  • Persian: “سم”
  • Picard: “Sonme”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd la Somme”
  • Piemontese: “Somme”
  • Polish: “Somma”
  • Portuguese: “Somme”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Somme”
  • Romanian: “Somme”
  • Russian: “Сомма”
  • Scots: “Somme”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Somme”
  • Serbian: “Сома”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Somme”
  • Sinhala: “සොම්මේ”
  • Slovak: “Somme”
  • Slovenian: “Somme”
  • Spanish: “Soma”
  • Spanish: “Somme”
  • Swahili: “Somme”
  • Swedish: “Somme”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Сомма”
  • Tamil: “செம்மே”
  • Telugu: “సోమె”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดซอม”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Somme”
  • Turkish: “Somme”
  • Ukrainian: “Сомма”
  • Urdu: “سوم”
  • Venetian: “Modeło:Comuni del departemento Somme”
  • Venetian: “Somme”
  • Vietnamese: “Somme”
  • Vlaams: “Somme”
  • Volapük: “Somme”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Somme”
  • Welsh: “Somme”
  • Western Frisian: “Somme”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع سوم”
  • Wu Chinese: “索姆省”
  • Yue Chinese: “索姆”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Cimetière de La Madeleine d’Amiens and Dreuil lès Amiens Railway Station.

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