Marseille

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Coordinates: 43°17′47″N 5°22′12″E / 43.296386°N 5.369954°E / 43.296386; 5.369954

Commune o Marseille

Marseille
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Panorama o Marseille
Location
Marseille is located in France
Marseille
Administration
Kintra Fraunce
Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Depairtment Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement Marseille
Intercommunality Urban Community o Marseille Provence Métropole
Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin (UMP)
(since 1995)
Statistics
Population2 851,420  (2008)
 - Ranking 2nt efter Paris
Urban spread
Urban aurie 90 km2 (35 sq mi) (2006)
 - Population 1,420,000 (2010)
Metro aurie 2,830.2 km2 (1,092.7 sq mi) (1999)
 - Population 1,604,550 (2007)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 13055/ 13001-13016
Diallin code 0491 or 0496
Wabsteid marseille.fr
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an military personnel) anerlie coontit ance.

Marseille (in Inglis an aa commonly spelt Marseilles, pronounced /mɑrˈseɪ/; French pronunciation: [maʁsɛj]; locally Template:IPA-frdia; in Occitan Marselha or Marsiho [maʀˈsejɔ, maʀˈsijɔ]), kent in antiquity as Massalia (frae Greek: Μασσαλία),[1] is the seicont maist populous ceety in Fraunce, efter Paris, wi a population o 852,395 athin its administrative limits on a laund aurie o 240.62 km2 (93 sq mi). The urban aurie o Marseille extends ayont the ceety limits wi a population o ower 1,420,000[2] on an aurie o 1,204 km2 (465 sq mi). 1,530,000[3] or 1,601,095[4] fowk live in the Marseille metropolitan aurie. Locatit on the sootheast coast o Fraunce on the Mediterranean Sea, Marseille is Fraunce's lairgest commercial port an lairgest French ceety on the Mediterranean coast. Marseille is the caipital o the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, as well as the caipital o the Bouches-du-Rhône depairtment. Its woners are cawed Marseillais.

Marseille enjoys a Mediterranean climate. The simmer/haliday saison lasts for sax months, frae Mey tae October, although an aa in Aprile whiles thare are temperaturs abuin 20 °C (68.0 °F). Winters are mild, wi average temperatur 12 °C (54 °F) durin the day an 4 °C (39 °F) at nicht in the period December–Januar–Februar.

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Internaitional relations [edit]

Twin touns — sister ceeties [edit]

Marseille is currently offeecially twinned wi thirteen ceeties:[5]

Pairtner ceeties [edit]

Forby Marseille haes signed various types o formal greements o cooperation wi 31 ceeties aw ower the warld:[7]

Referenes [edit]

  1. See:
  2. Demographia: World Urban Areas, Mairch 2010
  3. European Spatial Planning Observation Network, Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4.3), Final Report, Chapter 3, (ESPON, 2007)
  4. Insee - Résultats du recensement de la population - Marseille-Aix-en-Provence, 2006
  5. Marseille Official website - Twin Cities. Flag of France.svg (in French) © 2008 Ville de Marseille. Retrieved on 26 November 2008. .
  6. Yerevan Municipality - Sister Cities. © 2005-2009 www.yerevan.am. Retrieved on 22 Juin 2009. .
  7. Agreements of cooperation (in French)[deid airtin]
  8. Gdańsk Official Website: 'Miasta partnerskie' (Polish & English). © 2009 Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku. Retrieved on 11 Julie 2009. .
  9. Embassy of France and Russia - sister cities[deid airtin]
  10. Twinning Cities: International Relations (PDF). Municipality of Tirana. www.tirana.gov.al. Retrieved on 23 Juin 2009. .