Marseille

Marseille (in Inglis an aa commonly spelt Marseilles, pronooncit ; ; locally: ;  or , , ), kent in antiquity as Massalia (frae See:

, Chapter 2, Massilia and Rome before 390 B.C.; ), 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 1,420,000Demographia: World Urban Areas, Mairch 2010 on an aurie o 1,204 km2 (465 sq mi). 1,530,000European Spatial Planning Observation Network, Study on Urban Functions (Project 1.4.3) , Final Report, Chapter 3, (ESPON, 2007) or 1,601,095Insee - Résultats du recensement de la population - Marseille-Aix-en-Provence , 2006 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:
 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</small>

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

 References 


Category:Communes o Bouches-du-Rhône