AMIENS, an arrondissement in the department of the Somme, in the north of France. Its extent is 719 square miles, or about 460,035 English acres. It comprehends thirteen cantons, viz., Amiens, Conti, Corbi, Hornoy, Moliens-Bibame, Oisemont, Piquigny, Poix, Soins, and Villers-Bocage, with 249 communes or parishes. In 1851 it contained 189,968 inhabitants.