Marseille
Coordinates: 43°17′47″N 5°22′12″E / 43.296386°N 5.369954°E
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Commune o Marseille |
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| Marseille | |
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| Panorama o Marseille | |
| Location | |
  Marseille
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| Administration | |
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| 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 | Expression error: Unexpected < operator.|(Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[".)}} sq mi) (2006) |
| - Population | 1,420,000 (2010) |
| Metro aurie | Expression error: Unexpected < operator.|(Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[".)}} 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 spelled Marseilles, pronounced /mɑrˈseɪ/; Template:IPA-fr; locally Template:IPA-frdia; in Occitan Marselha or Marsiho Template:IPA-oc), 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 land 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 inhabitants are cawed Marseillais.
Marseille enjoys a Mediterranean climate. The simmer/holiday saison lasts for sax months, frae May tae October, although an aa in Aprile sometimes there are temperatures abuin 20 °C (68.0 °F). Winters are mild, wi average temperature 12 °C (54 °F) durin the day an 4 °C (39 °F) at nicht in the period December–Januar–Februar.
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[edit] Internaitional relations
[edit] Twin touns — sister ceeties
Marseille is currently offeecially twinned wi thirteen ceeties:[5]
[edit] Pairtner ceeties
In addition Marseille haes signed various types o formal agreements o cooperation wi 31 ceeties aw ower the warld:[7]
[edit] Referenes
- ↑ See:
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- Ebel, Charles (1976), Transalpine Gaul: the emergence of a Roman province, Brill Archive, pp. 5-16, ISBN 9004043845, Chapter 2, Massilia and Rome before 390 B.C.
- ↑ Demographia: World Urban Areas, Mairch 2010
- ↑ European Spatial Planning Observation Network, Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4.3), Final Report, Chapter 3, (ESPON, 2007)
- ↑ Insee - Résultats du recensement de la population - Marseille-Aix-en-Provence, 2006
- ↑ Marseille Official website - Twin Cities.
Template:Fontcolor) © 2008 Ville de Marseille. Retrieved on 26 November 2008. . - ↑ Yerevan Municipality - Sister Cities. © 2005-2009 www.yerevan.am. Retrieved on 22 Juin 2009. .
- ↑ Agreements of cooperation (in French)Template:Dead link
- ↑ Gdańsk Official Website: 'Miasta partnerskie' (Polish & English). © 2009 Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku. Retrieved on 11 Julie 2009. .
- ↑ Embassy of France and Russia - sister citiesTemplate:Dead link
- ↑ Twinning Cities: International Relations (PDF). Municipality of Tirana. www.tirana.gov.al. Retrieved on 23 Juin 2009. .
