COMPEIGNE, an arrondissement of the department of the Oise, in France, extending over 530 square miles, divided into eight cantons, and these again into 165 communes, containing 92,660 inhabitants. The city which gives the name to it is a well-built place on the river Oise, near to the place where the Aisne empties itself into that river. It contains 1476 houses, and 6260 inhabitants. It is a place of some trade for timber and cordage, and for the building of craft to navigate on the Seine between Rouen and Paris. Long. 2.44. E. Lat. 49. 24. N.