Marseille

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.

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Marseille Location within Provence-A.-C.d'A. region Marseille
Coordinates: 43°17′47″N 5°22′12″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 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.

Internaitional relations

Relatit page: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Fraunce

Twin touns — sister ceeties

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

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire Antwerp, Belgium Copenhagen, Denmark Dakar, Senegal Genoa, Italy Glesga, Scotland, Unitit Kinrick Haifa, Israel

Hamburgh, Germany Kobe, Japan Marrakech, Morocco Odessa, Ukraine Piraeus, Greece Shanghai, Cheenae Yerevan, Armenie, syne 1992[6]

Pairtner ceeties

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

Agadir, Morocco Alexandria, Egyp Algiers, Algerie Bamako, Mali Barcelona, Spain Beirut, Lebanon Cape Toun, Sooth Africae Casablanca, Morocco Gdańsk, Poland, syne 1992[8] Glesga, Scotland, Unitit Kinrick Istanbul, Turkey.

İzmit, Turkey Jerusalem, Israel Limassol, Cyprus Lomé, Togo Lyon, Fraunce Meknes, Morocco Montevideo, Uruguay N'Djamena, Chad Nice, Fraunce Nîmes, Fraunce

Nizhnevartovsk, Roushie Rabat, Morocco Sarajevo, Bosnie-Herzegovinae Saratov, Roushie[9] Sousse, Tunisie Thessaloniki, Greece Tirana, Albanie[10] Tripoli, Libie Tunis, Tunisie Surabaya, Indonesie