Hauts-de-France
Somme
Arrondissement of Amiens

Amiens

Amiens 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.
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  • Type: City with 134,000 residents
  • Description: commune in Somme, France
  • Also known as: “Amians”
  • Postal codes: 80000, 80080, and 80090

Places of Interest

Highlights include Amiens Cathedral and Amiens station.

Church
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
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 Amiens, the administrative capital of the Picardy region of France, some 120 kilometres north of Paris.

Railway station
Photo: BB 22385, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the main railway station for the Northern French city of Amiens.

Museum
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The is the main museum of Amiens 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.

Amiens

Latitude
49.8942° or 49° 53′ 39″ north
Longitude
2.2957° or 2° 17′ 45″ east
Population
134,000
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
IATA airport code
QAM
United Nations Location Code
FR AMI
Open location code
8FX4V7VW+M7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26686514
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3037854
Wiki­data ID
Q41604
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Amiens” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Amiens”
  • Albanian: “Amiens”
  • Arabic: “أميان”
  • Arabic: “اميان”
  • Aragonese: “Amiens”
  • Armenian: “Ամիեն”
  • Armenian: “Ամյեն”
  • Arpitan: “Amians”
  • Arpitan: “Amiens”
  • Asturian: “Amiens”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amyen”
  • Bambara: “Amiens”
  • Basque: “Amians”
  • Basque: “Amiens”
  • Bavarian: “Amiens”
  • Belarusian: “Ам’ен”
  • Belarusian: “Амен”
  • Bengali: “আমিয়াঁ”
  • Breton: “Amiens”
  • Buginese: “Amiens”
  • Bulgarian: “Амиен”
  • Cajun French: “Amiens”
  • Catalan: “Amens”
  • Catalan: “Amians”
  • Catalan: “Amiens”
  • Cebuano: “Amiens”
  • Chechen: “Амьен”
  • Chinese: “Amiens”
  • Chinese: “亚眠”
  • Chinese: “亞眠”
  • Chinese: “阿眠”
  • Chuvash: “Амьен”
  • Corsican: “Amiens”
  • Croatian: “Amiens”
  • Czech: “Amiens”
  • Danish: “Amiens”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Amiens”
  • Dutch: “Amians”
  • Dutch: “Amiens”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اميان”
  • Esperanto: “Amians”
  • Esperanto: “Amieno”
  • Esperanto: “Amiens”
  • Esperanto: “Amjenso”
  • Estonian: “Amiens”
  • Faroese: “Amiens”
  • Finnish: “Amiens”
  • French: “Amians”
  • French: “Amiens”
  • French: “Espace urbain d’Amiens”
  • French: “la petite Venise du Nord”
  • French: “Longpré-lès-Amiens”
  • Friulian: “Amiens”
  • Galician: “Amiens”
  • Georgian: “ამიენი”
  • German: “Amians”
  • German: “Amiens”
  • German: “Samarobriva”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌼𐌹𐌰𐌹𐌽”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌼𐌹𐌴𐌽𐍃”
  • Greek: “Αμιάν”
  • Greek: “Αμιέν”
  • Greek: “Αμιένη”
  • Gujarati: “એમીન્સ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Amiens”
  • Hebrew: “אמיין”
  • Hindi: “अमियाँ”
  • Hungarian: “Amiens”
  • Hungarian: “Samarobriva”
  • Icelandic: “Amiens”
  • Ido: “Amiens”
  • Indonesian: “Amiens”
  • Interlingua: “Amiens”
  • Interlingue: “Amiens”
  • Irish: “Amiens”
  • Italian: “Amians”
  • Italian: “Amiens”
  • Italian: “Samarobriva”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Amiens”
  • Japanese: “アミアン”
  • Kabyle: “Amiens”
  • Kalaallisut: “Amiens”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮಿಯೆನ್ಸ್”
  • Kongo: “Amiens”
  • Korean: “아미앵”
  • Kurdish: “Amiens”
  • Ladin: “Amiens”
  • Latin: “Ambianum”
  • Latin: “Amiens”
  • Latin: “Samarobriva”
  • Latvian: “Amiens”
  • Latvian: “Amjēna”
  • Ligurian: “Amiens”
  • Limburgan: “Amiens”
  • Lithuanian: “Amiens”
  • Lithuanian: “Amjenas”
  • Lombard: “Amiens”
  • Low German: “Amiens”
  • Luxembourgish: “Amiens”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Amiens”
  • Macedonian: “Амјен”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Amiens”
  • Malagasy: “Amiens”
  • Malay: “Amiens”
  • Marathi: “आमियां”
  • Mazanderani: “امیان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amiens”
  • Minangkabau: “Amiens”
  • Mingrelian: “ამიენი”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أميان”
  • Narom: “Amiens”
  • Neapolitan: “Amiens”
  • Northern Frisian: “Amiens”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amiens”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amiens”
  • Norwegian: “Amiens”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Amians”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Amiens”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Embenas”
  • Ossetian: “Амьен”
  • Papiamento: “Amiens”
  • Persian: “آمین”
  • Persian: “امیان”
  • Picard: “Anmien”
  • Picard: “Anmyin”
  • Piemontese: “Amiens”
  • Polish: “Amiens”
  • Pontic: “Αμιάν”
  • Portuguese: “Amiens”
  • Prussian: “Amiens”
  • Romagnol: “Amiens”
  • Romanian: “Amiens”
  • Romansh: “Amiens”
  • Russian: “Амьен”
  • Sardinian: “Amiens”
  • Scots: “Amiens”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Amiens”
  • Serbian: “Amiens”
  • Serbian: “Амијен”
  • Serbian: “Амјен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amiens”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Amjen”
  • Sicilian: “Amiens”
  • Silesian: “Amiens”
  • Sinhala: “ඒමියන්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Amiens”
  • Slovenian: “Amiens”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آمین”
  • Spanish: “Amians”
  • Spanish: “Amiens”
  • Spanish: “Samarobriva”
  • Swahili: “Amiens”
  • Swedish: “Amiens”
  • Swedish: “Samarobriva”
  • Swiss German: “Amiens”
  • Tajik: “Амйен”
  • Tamil: “அம்மயன்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Амьен”
  • Telugu: “అమియన్స్”
  • Thai: “Amiens”
  • Thai: “อาเมียง”
  • Thai: “อาเมียงส์”
  • Turkish: “Amiens”
  • Twi: “Amiens”
  • Ukrainian: “Ам’єн”
  • Ukrainian: “Амєн”
  • Urdu: “امیان”
  • Uzbek: “Amiens”
  • Venetian: “Amiens”
  • Vietnamese: “Amiens”
  • Vlaams: “Amiens”
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  • Walloon: “Amiens”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amiens”
  • Welsh: “Amiens”
  • Western Frisian: “Amiens”
  • Western Panjabi: “آمیاں”
  • Wolof: “Amiens”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚眠”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞眠”
  • Zulu: “Amiens”
  • “Amiens”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Amiens”. Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.