Nice

Commune o Nice
Motto: Nicæa civitas.
Location
Nice
Administration
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Depairtment	Alpes-Maritimes
Arrondissement	Nice
Intercommunality	Nice-Côte d'Azur
Mayor	Christian Estrosi (2008–14)
Statistics
Population2	344,875  (2008)
- Ranking	5t in Fraunce
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.

Nice ( /ˈniːs/, French pronunciation: [nis]; Niçard Occitan: Niça [classical norm] or Nissa [nanstaundart], Italian: Nizza or Nizza Marittima, Greek: Νίκαια, Latin: Nicaea) is the fift maist muckle ceety in Fraunce, efter Paris, Marseille, Lyon an Toulouse, wi a population o 348,721 athin its admeenistrative limits on a land aurie o 71.92 km² (28 sq mi). The urban aurie o Nice extends ayont the admeenistrative ceety limits wi a population o mair than 955,000 on an aurie o 721 km² (278 sq mi). Locatit on the sooth east coast o Fraunce on the Mediterranean Sea, Nice is the seicont-lairgest French ceety on the Mediterranean coast efter Marseille.

Sources

• INSEE
•  This airticle incorporates text fae a publication nou in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11t ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
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Freemit airtins

• Offeecial wabsteid (French)
• Visitors an Convention Bureau Nice (French) (Inglis)
• Travel guide tae Nice frae Wikivoyage
• Nice at the Open Directory Project