# Marseille

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Location within Provence-A.-C.d'A. region Marseille
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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 |
| 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.
**2Population 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; 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 on an aurie o 1,204 km2 (465 sq mi). 1,530,000 or 1,601,095 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.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — sister ceeties

Marseille is currently offeecially twinned wi thirteen ceeties:

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| * 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
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### Pairtner ceeties

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

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| * Agadir, Morocco
* Alexandria, Egyp
* Algiers, Algerie
* Bamako, Mali
* Barcelona, Spain
* Beirut, Lebanon
* Cape Toun, Sooth Africae
* Casablanca, Morocco
* Gdańsk, Poland, syne 1992
* 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
* Sousse, Tunisie
* Thessaloniki, Greece
* Tirana, Albanie
* Tripoli, Libie
* Tunis, Tunisie
* Surabaya, Indonesie
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