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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.
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.
Module:Location map/data/France Marseille is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Marseille. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
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).
Map of Marseille, 1720. According to John Murray, [2] in 1854 the Old Port had a capacity of between 1,000 and 1,200 ships. Roughly 18,000 merchant ships passed through the port each year, carrying about 20 million barrels worth of freight; this represented a quarter of the trade in Liverpool at the time.
1486 - Marseille becomes part of France. [1] ... Map of Marseille, 1993; Map of Marseille, 1999; Items related to Marseille, various dates (via Europeana).
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 ...
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 ]