River Somme
The Somme is a river in Picardy, northern France. The river is 245 km in length, from its source in the high ground of the former Arrouaise Forest at Fonsomme near Saint-Quentin, to the Bay of the Somme, in the English Channel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Picardy, France
- Also known as: “la Somme Rivière”, “Somme”, and “Somme River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gare de Saint-Valery-Port and Gare de Saint-Valery-Canal.
Gare de Saint-Valery-Port
Railway station
Photo: Christophe.Finot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gare de Saint-Valery-Port is a railway station.
Gare de Saint-Valery-Canal
Railway station
Photo: P.poschadel, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
Gare de Saint-Valery-Canal is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Le Crotoy and Le Hourdel.
Le Crotoy
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Le Crotoy is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. The inhabitants are known as Crotellois. Le Crotoy is situated 4 km northwest of River Somme.
Le Hourdel
Hamlet
Photo: cayeux-sur-mer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Le Hourdel is a hamlet, which is situated 7 km northwest of River Somme.
River Somme
- Categories: main stem, coastal river, and body of water
- Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“River Somme” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر السوم”
- Arabic: “نهر سوم”
- Azerbaijani: “Somma çayı”
- Basque: “Somme ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Рака Сома”
- Belarusian: “Сома”
- Breton: “Somme”
- Bulgarian: “Сома”
- Catalan: “Riu Somme”
- Catalan: “Somme”
- Cebuano: “Somme”
- Chechen: “Сомма (эрк)”
- Chechen: “Сомма”
- Chinese: “索姆河”
- Croatian: “Soma”
- Croatian: “Somme”
- Czech: “Somma”
- Danish: “Somme”
- Dutch: “Somme (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Somme”
- Dutch: “Zomme”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر السوم”
- Esperanto: “Somme”
- Estonian: “Somme’i jõgi”
- Estonian: “Somme”
- Finnish: “Somme”
- French: “Somme”
- Galician: “Río Somme”
- German: “Somme”
- Greek: “Σομ”
- Hebrew: “נהר הסום”
- Hebrew: “סום”
- Hungarian: “Somme”
- Irish: “An Somme”
- Irish: “Somme”
- Italian: “Somme”
- Japanese: “ソンム川”
- Korean: “솜 강”
- Korean: “솜강”
- Latin: “Samara flumen”
- Latin: “Samara”
- Latin: “Somena”
- Latvian: “Somma”
- Lithuanian: “Soma”
- Luxembourgish: “Somme”
- Macedonian: “Сома”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Somme”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Somme”
- Norwegian: “Somme”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Somme”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sunna”
- Ossetian: “Соммæ (цæугæдон)”
- Ossetian: “Соммæ”
- Persian: “رودخانه سم”
- Picard: “Sonme”
- Polish: “Somma”
- Portuguese: “Rio Somme”
- Romanian: “Râul Somme”
- Russian: “Сомма”
- Serbian: “La Somme”
- Serbian: “Река Сома”
- Serbian: “Сом”
- Serbian: “Сома”
- Serbo-Croatian: “La Somme”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Soma”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Somme”
- Slovak: “Somma”
- Slovenian: “Soma”
- Spanish: “Rio Somme”
- Spanish: “Río Somme”
- Spanish: “Somme”
- Swedish: “Somme”
- Swiss German: “Somme”
- Tosk Albanian: “Somme”
- Ukrainian: “Сомма”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Somme”
- Vlaams: “Somme (riviere)”
- Vlaams: “Somme”
- Welsh: “Afon Somme”
- Western Frisian: “Somme”
- Wu Chinese: “索姆河”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as La Ferté and Saint-Valery-sur-Somme.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Noyelles Railway Station and Baie de Somme.
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