Amiens

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	Amiens Location within Hauts-de-France region Amiens
	Coordinates: 49°53′31″N 2°17′56″E / 49.892°N 2.299°ECoordinates: 49°53′31″N 2°17′56″E / 49.892°N 2.299°E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Hauts-de-France
Depairtment	Somme
Arrondissement	Amiens
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole
Govrenment
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Gilles Demailly
Area 1	49.46 km2 (19.10 sq mi)
Population (2016-01-01)2	136,998
• Density	2,800/km2 (7,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	80021 /80000
Elevation	14–106 m (46–348 ft) ; (avg. 33 m or 108 ft)
	1 French Laund Register data, that excludes lochs, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries. 2 Population withoot dooble coontin: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an militar personnel) anerly 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) sooth-wast o Lille. It is the caipital o the Somme depairtment in Picardy. The ceety haed a population o 136,105 accordin tae the 2006 census.

Etymology

Oreeginally cried Samarobriva ("Somme brige") bi the Gauls, the toun wis later gien the name Ambianum bi the Romans as it wis a dounset o the Gallic Ambiani fowk. The Ambiani derive thair name frae the Gaulish wird ambe meanin 'river' – a reference tae the Somme that flows throu Amiens.^[1]