Longueau

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Coordinates: 49°52′15″N 2°21′25″E / 49.8708333333, 2.35694444444

Commune of Longueau
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Picardie
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Amiens
Canton	Amiens 4e (Est)
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole
Mayor	Joël Brunet (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	23 m–64 m (avg. 28 m)
Land area¹	3,42 km²
Population² (2004)	5179
- Density	1536/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	80489/ 80330
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Longueau is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

Contents 1 Geography 2 Population 3 Places of interest 4 See also 5 External Links 6 Notes

[edit] Geography

Situated 4 miles southeast of Amiens, a suburb just by the airport, on the N29 road

[edit] Population

Population Evolution

1936	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2004
3906	2770	4811	5316	5485	5598	5309	4940	5210	5179
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting

[edit] Places of interest

The town was once a railway centre. The reinforced concrete depot, now a registered historic monument is one of four designed by Bernard Lafaille between the two world wars.

[edit] See also

Communes of the Somme department
Gare de Longueau

[edit] External Links

• Longueau sur on the Insee website (French)
• Longueau on the Quid website (French)

[edit] Notes

• This article is based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, consulted on March 1st 2008.