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TO KNOW
The Picardie holds the first regional rank for the intended vegetable production to canneries.
She is also the first productrice of beet sugar.
She represents 1/10 of the European production and 1/3 of the French production.
The 2/3 of the French manufacture of perfumes are achieved in Picardie.
The big marks as Bourgeois, Chanel, Givenchy or Yves-Saint-Laurent are present.
To Beauvais one manufactures the half of sponges used in the world.
The region is a leader in the pronged brush manufacture.
GEOGRAPHY
The geographical region of Picardie is situated to confines of the Bresle, the Canche, the Thérain and the Oise. The Picardie is formed of the north of the Parisian Basin. It is a chalky tray, that remains a region of plains. One finds cities of Abbeville or Amiens there notably.
Some particularly rich soils allow big cultures within spacious spaces.
They are covered of silt and carry rich cultures as the beet or wheat.
These extents are interrupted by valleys of the Aisne, the Oise and the Sum.
They are cashed moderately and are covered of marshes and peat-bogs.
They have very often been transformed in vegetable culture zones and market gardeners called "hortillonnages".
The Picardie is also represented by his/her/its coastline. She is constructed of high cliffs or immense open extents to tides, as in Bay of Sum. The coast is staked out of climatic stations as Berck and bathing as The Touquet-Paris-beach. The forest remains the beneficiary of the royal hunt domains as forests of Chantilly, Compiègne, Crécy and Halatte.
The region is situated to a privileged site. In the setting of the extension of Europe, the Picardie is a region of crossroads. On the geographical plan, the economic activity is contrasted between the North and the South. To the North, Amiens appears the main pole. To the South, the influence of the island-of-france gives back it very dependent. Less a salaried employee on two works in an industrial enterprise whose social seat is in Picardie.
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