Picardy info

The region of Picardy is considered by some to be an artificial entity, with the south of the Oise department lying inside the metropolitan area of Paris. People in the south of Oise commute to Île-de-France for work, and hardly feel Picard (the local inhabitant and traditionally Picard language speakers) unlike those coming from the north of the region for whom the term is very meaningful.

Between the 1990 and 1999 censuses, the population of Oise increased 0.61% per year (almost twice faster than France as a whole), while the Aisne department lost inhabitants, and the Somme barely grew with a 0.16% growth per year. Today, 41.3% of the population of Picardy live inside the Oise department, which historically was not part of Picardy.

Although Picardy proper is a vast flat plain of open fields, famed for the gruesome Battle of the Somme, the south of Picardy (historically part of Île-de-France) is a very scenic hilly area with large forests.

 

Bays in Picardy, France

Beauvais


Beauvais is a town and commune and capital of the Oise department in northern France. Population (1999): city: 57,355; city and suburbs: 59,003; metropolitan area: 100,733. It lies about 90 km (56 mi) north of Paris. Its residents are called Beauvaisiens....

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Belle-Eglise


Belle-Eglise is a commune in the Oise department in northern France....

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Chantilly


Chantilly is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. It is in the metropolitan area of Paris 38.4km. (23.9 miles) north-northeast from the centre of Paris....

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Gouvieux


Gouvieux is a commune in the Oise department in northern France....

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Villers-Saint-Paul


Villers-Saint-Paul is a commune in the Oise department in northern France....

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