Beauvais is a town and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region, 75 kilometres north of Paris. The commune of Beauvais had a population of 56,020 as of 2016, making it the most populous town in the Oise department, and third most populous in Picardy. Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, the metropolitan area of Beauvais has a population of 128,020. The region around Beauvais is called the Beauvaisis.