Marseille

Marseille
Marseille; Marseille
	Panorama o Marseille
	Banner Coat airms
	Marseille Location within Provence-A.-C.d'A. region Marseille
	Coordinates: 43°17′47″N 5°22′12″E / 43.296386°N 5.369954°ECoordinates: 43°17′47″N 5°22′12″E / 43.296386°N 5.369954°E
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Depairtment	Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement	Marseille
Intercommunality	Urban Community o Marseille Provence Métropole
Govrenment
• Mayor (since 1995)	Jean-Claude Gaudin (UMP)
Area 1	240.62 km2 (92.90 sq mi)
• Urban (2006)	90 km2 (30 sq mi)
• Metro (1999)	2830.2 km2 (1,092.7 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	851,420
• Rank	2nt efter Paris
• Density	3,500/km2 (9,200/sq mi)
• Urban (2010)	1,420,000
• Urban density	16,000/km2 (41,000/sq mi)
• Metro (2007)	1,604,550
• Metro density	570/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	13055 /13001-13016
Diallin codes	0491 or 0496
Website	marseille.fr
	1 French Laund Register data, that excludes lochs, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries. 2 Population withoot dooble coontin: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an militar personnel) anerly coontit ance.

Marseille (in Inglis an aa commonly spelt Marseilles, pronooncit /mɑː(ɹ)ˈseɪ/; French: [maʁsɛj]; locally: [mɑχˈsɛjɐ]; Occitan: Marselha or Marsiho, [maʀˈsejɔ], [maʀˈsijɔ]), kent in antiquity as Massalia (frae Greek: Μασσαλία^[1]; Laitin: Massilia), is the seicont maist populous ceety in Fraunce, efter Paris, wi a population o 852,395 athin its administrative leemits on a laund aurie o 240.62 km2 (93 sq mi). The urban aurie o Marseille extends ayont the ceety leemits 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 Mediterrane 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 month, frae Mey tae October, awtho 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.