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Marseille or Marseilles (French: Marseille; Provençal Occitan: Marselha) is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river.
The arrondissement of Marseille is an arrondissement of France in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 21 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 1,090,221 (2021), and its area is 683.2 km 2 (263.8 sq mi).
It is located in the Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Vaucluse departments, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, southeastern France. [1] It was created in January 2016, replacing the previous Communauté urbaine Marseille Provence Métropole and five communautés d'agglomération. [2] Its area is 3149.2 km 2. Its population was 1,889,666 in ...
The Archdiocese of Marseille is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in France. The Archepiscopal see is in the city of Marseille, and the diocese comprises the arrondissement of Marseille, a subdivision of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. [citation needed]
Marseille is the second largest city in France after Paris, and has the third largest metropolitan population, behind those of Paris and Lyon respectively. [ 9 ] Nice is host to the second-largest population concentration in the region, with a city population of 344,875 and an urban population of 1,005,230, making it the fifth-most populous ...
Marseille, France's second-largest city, has one of the largest container ports in the country. It prizes itself as France's oldest city, founded by Greek settlers from Phocaea around 600 BC. [ 3 ] Bouches-du-Rhône is the most populous department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region , with 2,043,110 inhabitants as of 2019. [ 4 ]
This list of the sixteen arrondissements of Marseille (French: Arrondissements de Marseille), France includes their INSEE code, postal code, sector and neighbourhoods. Unlike Paris and Lyon, each municipal arrondissement of Marseille is not governed by an elected council (conseil d'arrondissement) and mayor.
Marseille-Fos Port (French: Grand port maritime de Marseille, lit. 'Great Seaport of Marseille') is the main trade seaport of France. In 2011, the port had an overall traffic of 88 million tons. It was also one of the 15 world's largest cruise ports and the fifth-largest in the Mediterranean.