Y, Somme

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Y's church.

Y (Template:IPA Template:Respell) 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The inhabitants call themselves Ypsilonien(ne)s,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> from the Greek letter Upsilon (Υ), which looks like the letter Y.

Geography

Y is situated Template:Convert east of Amiens, at the junction of the D15 and D615 roads, in the far eastern side of the department.

Climate

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.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref> 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).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name=":0" /> 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,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is 11.0°C and the mean annual precipitation total is 647.5 mm.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

The district belonged to the Y family from Vermandois.<ref>Notice historique et géographique, réalisée par l'instituteur, M. Huguet, 1899, Archives départementales, Amiens</ref>

The village was caught up in the First World War. It was decorated by a Croix de guerre on 15 December 1920.<ref>Journal officiel du 16 décembre 1920, p. 20825.</ref> The Church of Saint-Médard was rebuilt in 1921 after the destruction caused by the First World War.<ref>Oswald Macqueron, « Aquarelle : Église d'Y, d'après nature, 18 octobre 1876. » [archive], Documents numérisés, fonds Macqueron, Bibliothèque municipale d'Abbeville.</ref>

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

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 mayors

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List of successive Mayors of Y

In office		Mayor	Ref.
March 2001	2014	Charles Carpentier
2014	Incumbent	Vincent Joly	<ref name=mayor/>

Population

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

See also

• Communes of the Somme department
• Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson, a village in the Marne département and France's longest commune name.

External links

• Y on the Quid website Template:In lang