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Commune in Hauts-de-France, France

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Commune in Hauts-de-France, France

Y
Commune
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Coordinates: 49°48′14″N 2°59′34″E / 49.8039°N 2.9928°E / 49.8039; 2.9928
Country France
Region Hauts-de-France
Department Somme
Arrondissement Péronne
Canton Ham
Intercommunality Est de la Somme
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026) Vincent Joly[1]
Area1 2.73 km2 (1.05 sq mi)
Population (2022)[2] 88
• Density 32/km2 (83/sq mi)
Demonym Ypsilonien(ne)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 80829 /80190
Elevation 56–82 m (184–269 ft) (avg. 72 m or 236 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Y's church.

Y (French pronunciation: [i] ⓘ ee) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Y bears the shortest place name in France, and one of the shortest in the world.[3] The inhabitants call themselves Ypsilonien(ne)s,[4] from the Greek letter Upsilon (Υ), which looks like the letter Y.

Y is situated 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of Amiens, at the junction of the D15 and D615 roads, in the far eastern side of the department.

In 2010, the climate of the commune was type 3, according to a study by French National Centre for Scientific Research based on a series of data covering the period 1971–2000.[5] In 2020, Météo-France published a typology of the climate of metropolitan France, in which the commune is exposed to an oceanic climate and is in the North-East climatic region of the Paris basin, characterized by average sunshine, average rainfall regularly distributed throughout the year, and a cold winter (3 °C).[6]

For 1971–2000, the mean annual temperature was 10.4°C, with an annual temperature range of 15.1°C. The average annual rainfall total is 709 mm, with 11 days of precipitation in January and 8.7 days in July.[5] For 1991–2020, the average annual temperature observed at the nearest weather station, located in the municipality of Estrées-Mons, 8 kilometers away per great-circle navigation,[7] is 11.0°C and the mean annual precipitation total is 647.5 mm.[8][9] For the future, the municipality's climate parameters estimate for 2050 according to different greenhouse gas emission scenarios can be consulted on a dedicated website published by Météo-France in November 2022.[10]

The district belonged to the Y family from Vermandois.[11]

The village was caught up in the First World War. It was decorated by a Croix de guerre on 15 December 1920.[12] The Church of Saint-Médard was rebuilt in 1921 after the destruction caused by the First World War.[13]

Since 2002, the commune has been part of the community of communes of the Pays Hamois, which succeeded the district of Ham, created in 1960. Then on 1 January 2017, Pays Hamois and that of the Pays Neslois, merged.

Politics and administration

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The commune is located in the Arrondissement of Péronne in the Somme department of northern France. Since 1958, the commune has elected deputies from Somme's 5th constituency.

Since 1801, the commune has been a part of the Canton of Ham. During the 2014 cantonal redistribution in France, the boundaries of the canton were expanded from 19 to 67 communes.

List of successive Mayors of Y

In office Mayor Ref.
March 2001 2014 Charles Carpentier
2014 Incumbent Vincent Joly [1]

At the French Revolution the commune had 160 inhabitants; as of 2017 its legal population was 92 inhabitants.

Historical population

YearPop.±% p.a.1793 160— 1800 156−0.36%1806 148−0.87%1821 161+0.56%1831 179+1.07%1836 202+2.45%1841 208+0.59%1846 218+0.94%1851 205−1.22%1856 209+0.39%1861 234+2.29%1866 226−0.69%1872 196−2.35%1876 183−1.70%1881 194+1.17%1886 192−0.21%1891 189−0.31%1896 186−0.32% YearPop.±% p.a.1901 210+2.46%1906 199−1.07%1911 148−5.75%1921 106−3.28%1926 116+1.82%1931 114−0.35%1936 121+1.20%1946 125+0.33%1954 143+1.70%1962 123−1.87%1968 116−0.97%1975 86−4.18%1982 90+0.65%1990 82−1.16%1999 89+0.91%2007 80−1.32%2012 93+3.06%2017 92−0.22%
Source: EHESS[14] and INSEE (1968-2017)[15]
  1. ^ a b "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2022" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
  3. ^ Ash, Russell (10 November 2011). Boring, Botty and Spong. RHCP. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-4090-9739-6.
  4. ^ "Dictionary gives labels for locals 'From Abilene to Zimbabwe'". Deseret Times. Associated Press. 12 September 1997.
  5. ^ a b Joly, Daniel; Brossard, Thierry; Cardot, Hervé; Cavailhes, Jean; Hilal, Mohamed; Wavresky, Pierre (2010-06-18). "Les types de climats en France, une construction spatiale". Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography (in French). doi:10.4000/cybergeo.23155. ISSN 1278-3366.
  6. ^ "Un peu de géographie". pluiesextremes.meteo.fr. Archived from the original on 2024-01-12. Retrieved 2025-09-11.
  7. ^ "Distance between Y and Estrées-Mons". fr.distance.to. Retrieved 2025-09-11.
  8. ^ "Station Météo-France « Estrees-mons-inra » (commune d'Estrées-Mons) - fiche climatologique - période 1991-2020" (PDF). donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr. Retrieved 2025-09-11.
  9. ^ "Station Météo-France « Estrees-mons-inra » (commune d'Estrées-Mons) - fiche de métadonnées" (PDF). donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr. Retrieved 2025-09-11.
  10. ^ "CLIMADIAG COMMUNE par Météo-France". meteofrance.com. Retrieved 2025-09-11.
  11. ^ Notice historique et géographique, réalisée par l'instituteur, M. Huguet, 1899, Archives départementales, Amiens
  12. ^ Journal officiel du 16 décembre 1920, p. 20825.
  13. ^ Oswald Macqueron, « Aquarelle : Église d'Y, d'après nature, 18 octobre 1876. » [archive], Documents numérisés, fonds Macqueron, Bibliothèque municipale d'Abbeville.
  14. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Y, EHESS (in French).
  15. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

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