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Marseille Provence Airport is the fourth largest in France. In May 2005, the French financial magazine L'Expansion named Marseille the most dynamic of France's large cities, citing figures showing that 7,200 companies had been created in the city since 2000. [28]
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.
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 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 2018, of which 868,277 in Marseille proper and 143,097 in Aix-en-Provence. [3]
The Old Port of Marseille (French: Vieux-Port de Marseille, [vjøpɔʁ də maʁsɛj]) is at the end of the Canebière, the major street of Marseille. It has been the natural harbour of the city since antiquity and is now the main popular place in Marseille. It became mainly pedestrian in 2013.
France is divided into eighteen administrative regions ... Formerly a coalition of free cities in Holy Roman Empire, ... Marseille: 31,400 5,081,101. 123
The law was largely welcomed but some wondered why it was applied only to Paris, Lyon and Marseille. These three cities are the largest in France (with 2,125,246 inhabitants in Paris, 798,430 inhabitants in Marseille, and 466,000 inhabitants in Lyon) and the law was meant to have the local administrations become more accessible and tied to ...
Its prefecture and largest city is Marseille; other important cities include Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Martigues and Aubagne. Marseille, France's second-largest city, has one of the largest container ports in the country. It prides itself on being France's oldest city, founded by Greek settlers from Phocaea around 600 BC. [3]