Editing Picardy (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Eclusier-Vaux (Somme), belvédère de Vaux.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Landscape in Picardy]]
Between the 1990 and 1999 censuses, the population of [[Oise]] increased 0.61% per year, almost twice as fast as France as a whole.  Meanwhile the [[Aisne]] department lost inhabitants, and the [[Somme (department)|Somme]] barely grew with a 0.16% growth per year. Today, 41.3% of the population of Picardy live inside the [[Oise]] department.

Picardy stretches from the long sand beaches of the Somme estuary in the west to the vast forests and pastures of the [[Thiérache]] in the east to [[Chantilly, Oise|Chantilly]] and [[Pierrefonds, Oise|Pierrefonds]] near the Paris Area and vineyards of the border with [[Champagne (province)|Champagne]] to the south.