Somme
The Somme is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. It is part of the Hauts-de-France region. It is bordered by Pas-de-Calais and Nord to the north, Aisne to the east, Oise to the south and Seine-Maritime to the southwest.
- Department of France with about 565,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 50 metres (170 feet)
- Description: French department
- Neighbors: Seine-Maritime
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amiens Cathedral and Stade de la Licorne.
Amiens Cathedral
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens, or simply Amiens Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral.
Stade de la Licorne
Stade de la Licorne is a multi-use stadium in Amiens, France.
Musée de Picardie
The Musée de Picardie is the main museum of Amiens and Picardy, in France.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amiens and Dreuil-lès-Amiens.
Amiens
Amiens is the capital of the northern French region of Hauts-de-France.
Dreuil-lès-Amiens
Dreuil-lès-Amiens is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Saveuse
Saveuse is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Saveuse is situated 6 km southwest of Somme.
Somme
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Latitude
49.9314° or 49° 55′ 53″ north
Longitude
2.2764° or 2° 16′ 35″ east
Open location code
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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: “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 de 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”
- Swiss German: “Département Somme”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Сомма”
- Tamil: “செம்மே”
- Telugu: “సోమె”
- Thai: “จังหวัดซอม”
- Turkish: “Somme”
- Ukrainian: “Сомма”
- Urdu: “سوم”
- 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”
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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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