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- Communes of the Somme department The following is a list of the 772 communes of the Somme department of France.
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The following is a list of the 772 communes of the Somme department of France . The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole. Communauté d'agglomération de la Baie de Somme.
Insee CodePostal CodeCommune8000180100800028032080003805608000480210As of 2019, there are 9 communes with more than 5,000 inhabitants: [3] Battles of the Somme[edit] Main article: Battle of the Somme. At the beginning of the First World War, during the Race to the Sea of September and November 1914, the Somme became the site of the Battle of Albert.
The commune of the French Republic with the shortest name is the commune of Y in Somme (91 inhabitants). The two communes in the French Republic with the longest names (38 letters): Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson in Marne (517 inhabitants) Beaujeu-Saint-Vallier-Pierrejux-et-Quitteur in Haute-Saône (937 inhabitants)
Liste des 772 communes du département de la Somme au 1er janvier 2024. Nom. Code. Insee. Code postal. Arrondissement. Canton. Intercommunalité. Superficie.
It is composed of 4 districts ("arrondissements") , 46 townships ("cantons") and 782 towns ("communes"). The 4 districts of the department of Somme are : Abbeville, Amiens, Montdidier, Péronne. The inhabitants of of Somme were 555 551 in 1999 and 564 319 in 2006. The area of the department of Somme is 6 170,12 km ².
As the sun dawned on the first of July in 1916, the tranquil fields of the Somme in Northern France were about to experience a battle of unprecedented scale and devastation. The Battle of the Somme would become synonymous with the futility and destruction of the entire conflict. Yet, behind the emotional narratives are a series of staggering figures that quantify the scale, brutality, and cost ...
This category includes the 782 French communes of the Somme department, in region Hauts-de-France. Toponyms sorting follows the French rule: the definite articles ( L’, La, Le, Les) at the beginning of the name are not taken into account (“ La Chapelle... ” is classified as “ Chapelle... (La) ”).
