Amiens
Coordinates: 49°53′31″N 2°17′56″E / 49.892°N 2.299°E
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Commune o Amiens |
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  Amiens
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| Kintra | Fraunce |
| Region | Picardie |
| Depairtment | Somme |
| Arrondissement | Amiens |
| Intercommunality | Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole |
| Mayor | Gilles Demailly (2008–2014) |
| Statistics | |
| Population2 | 139,271 (2006) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 80021/ 80000 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an military personnel) anerlie coontit ance. | |
Amiens (French pronunciation: [amjɛ̃]) is a ceety an commune in northren Fraunce, 120 km (75 mi) north o Paris an 100 km (62 mi) south-west of Lille. It is the caipital o the Somme depairtment in Picardy. The ceety haed a population o 136,105 accordin tae the 2006 census.
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Etymology [edit]
Oreeginally cried Samarobriva ("Somme brige") bi the Gauls, the toun wis later given the name Ambianum bi the Romans as it wis a settlement o the Gallic Ambiani fowk. The Ambiani derive their name frae the Gaulish wird ambe meanin 'river' – a reference tae the Somme that flows through Amiens.[1]
Internaitional relations [edit]
Twin touns – Sister ceeties [edit]
Amiens is twinned wi:
See an aw [edit]
- Battle o Amiens (disambiguation page)
References [edit]
- ↑ Placenames of the world: origins and ... – Google Books. Books.google.ca. Retrieved on 14 March 2011.
- ↑ List of Twin Towns in the Ruhr District. Twins2010.com (2009). Retrieved on 28 October 2009. .[deid airtin]
Freemit airtins [edit]
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