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Somme or The Somme may refer to: Places
*Somme (department), a department of France
*Somme, Queensland, Australia
*Canal de la Somme, a canal in France
*Somme (river), a river in France
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Somme'' (book), a ...
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (; pcd, Heuts-d'Franche; , also ''Upper France'') is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille. The ...
in northern
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ...
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Geography
Prouzel is situated on the D8b road, some 7 miles (11 km) southwest of
Amiens
Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...
, near the banks of the river
Selle
Selle may refer to:
* Selle (Scheldt tributary), the name of a river in Nord, France
* Selle (Somme tributary), the name of a river in Picardy, France
* Pic la Selle, a mountain in Haiti
* La Selle-Guerchaise, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine depa ...
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Population
Places of interest
* sixteenth-century church of Notre-Dame de la Nativité, with baptismal fonts from the twelfth century
* 17th-century château
* The ‘Coulée verte’ (en: ’Green Trail’). When the local railway closed in 1939, the derelict line was eventually converted into a pleasant nature trail.
* 18th-century pigeon house