Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Bouches-du-Rhône
Arrondissement of Marseille

Marseille

With 1.6 million people in its urban area, Marseille is the second most populated city of the biggest Mediterranean port and the economic center of the region.
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  • Type: City with 873,000 residents
  • Description: French commune in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur; the second largest city of France
  • Also known as: “City of Marseille”, “Marsaille”, “Marsailles”, “Marseille City”, “Marseille, France”, “Marseilles”, “Marselha”, “Marsielle”, “Marsielles”, “Marsiglia”, “Massalia”, “Massaliotes”, and “Sans Nom”
  • Postal codes: 13000, 13000, 13001, and 13001-13016
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean and Marseille-Saint-Charles station.

Museum
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The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations is a national museum located in Marseille, . It was inaugurated on 7 June 2013 as part of Marseille-Provence 2013, a year when Marseille was designated as the European Capital of Culture.

Railway station
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Marseille-Saint-Charles is the main railway station and intercity bus station of Marseille, France. It is the southern terminus of the Paris–Marseille railway and the western terminus of the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway.

Church
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, known to local citizens as la Bonne Mère, is a Catholic basilica in Marseille, France, and the city's best-known symbol. The site of a popular Assumption Day pilgrimage, it is the most visited site in Marseille.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 3rd arrondissement of Marseille and 5th arrondissement of Marseille.

Suburb
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The is one of the 16 arrondissements of Marseille. It is governed locally together with the , with which it forms the 2nd sector of Marseille.

Suburb
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The is one of the 16 arrondissements of Marseille. It is governed locally together with the , with which it forms the 3rd sector of Marseille.

Suburb
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The is one of the 16 arrondissements of Marseille. It is governed locally together with the , with which it forms the 4th sector of Marseille.

Marseille

Latitude
43.2962° or 43° 17′ 46″ north
Longitude
5.37° or 5° 22′ 12″ east
Population
873,000
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
IATA airport code
MRS
United Nations Location Code
FR MRS
Open location code
8FM779W9+FX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26761400
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2995469
Wiki­data ID
Q23482
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Marseille” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Marseille”
  • Albanian: “Marseille”
  • Albanian: “Marseja”
  • Algerian Arabic: “مارساي”
  • Amharic: “ማርሴ”
  • Amharic: “ማርሴል”
  • Amharic: “ማርሴይ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Massalia”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μασσαλία”
  • Arabic: “مارساي”
  • Arabic: “مارسيليا”
  • Arabic: “مرسيليا”
  • Arabic: “مرسيلية”
  • Aragonese: “Marsella”
  • Aragonese: “Marsiella”
  • Armenian: “Մարսել”
  • Armenian: “Մարսեյ”
  • Arpitan: “Marselye”
  • Asturian: “Marseille”
  • Asturian: “Marsella”
  • Aymara: “Marseille”
  • Azerbaijani: “Marsel”
  • Azerbaijani: “Marsey”
  • Balinese: “Marseille”
  • Bambara: “Marseille”
  • Bashkir: “Марсель”
  • Basque: “Marseilla”
  • Basque: “Marseille”
  • Basque: “Marsella”
  • Basque: “Marsilha”
  • Basque: “Massilia”
  • Bavarian: “Marseille”
  • Belarusian: “Марсель”
  • Belarusian: “Марсэль”
  • Bengali: “মার্সেই”
  • Bosnian: “Marseille”
  • Bosnian: “Marsej”
  • Breton: “Marseille”
  • Breton: “Marselha”
  • Breton: “Marsilha”
  • Bulgarian: “Марсилия”
  • Burmese: “မာဆေးမြို့”
  • Burmese: “မာရ်ဆယ်ယီမြို့”
  • Cajun French: “Marseille”
  • Catalan: “Marselha”
  • Catalan: “Marsella”
  • Cebuano: “Marseille (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Marseille”
  • Central Kurdish: “مارسیلیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “مارسێی”
  • Central Kurdish: “ماڕسێلی”
  • Chechen: “МагӀсель”
  • Chinese: “Marseille”
  • Chinese: “馬西利亞”
  • Chinese: “馬賽”
  • Chinese: “马赛”
  • Chuvash: “Марсель”
  • Corsican: “Marseglia”
  • Corsican: “Marseille”
  • Corsican: “Marsiglia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Marsel”
  • Croatian: “Marseille”
  • Croatian: “Marseilles”
  • Czech: “Marseille”
  • Czech: “Marseilles”
  • Dagbani: “Marseille”
  • Danish: “Marseille”
  • Danish: “Marseilles”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Marseille”
  • Dutch: “Marseille”
  • Eastern Mari: “Марсель”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مارساى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مرسيليا”
  • Erzya: “Марсель ош”
  • Esperanto: “Marseille”
  • Esperanto: “Marsejlo”
  • Esperanto: “Massilia”
  • Estonian: “Marseille”
  • Estonian: “Marseilles”
  • Estonian: “Massalia”
  • Ewe: “Marseille”
  • Extremaduran: “Marsella”
  • Faroese: “Marseille”
  • Fijian: “Maseli”
  • Finnish: “Marseille”
  • Finnish: “Marseilles”
  • Finnish: “Massilia”
  • French: “Cité phocéenne”
  • French: “Marseille”
  • French: “Massalia”
  • French: “Massilia”
  • French: “Sans-Nom”
  • French: “Ville-sans-Nom”
  • Friulian: “Marseille”
  • Galician: “Marsella”
  • Georgian: “მარსელი”
  • German: “Marseillais”
  • German: “Marseille”
  • German: “Massaliotisch”
  • German: “Massilia”
  • German: “Massillia”
  • Greek: “Μαρσέιγ”
  • Greek: “Μασσαλία”
  • Guarani: “Marsella”
  • Gujarati: “માર્સેલી”
  • Haitian: “Masey”
  • Haitian: “Masèy”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Marseille”
  • Hausa: “Marseille”
  • Hebrew: “מארסיי”
  • Hebrew: “מסיליה”
  • Hebrew: “מסליה”
  • Hebrew: “מרסי”
  • Hebrew: “מרסיי”
  • Hebrew: “מרשיליא”
  • Hindi: “मार्सैय”
  • Hungarian: “Marseille”
  • Hungarian: “Marseilles”
  • Hungarian: “Massilia”
  • Icelandic: “Marseille”
  • Ido: “Marseille”
  • Iloko: “Marseille”
  • Iloko: “Marseilles”
  • Iloko: “Marsella”
  • Indonesian: “Marseille”
  • Indonesian: “Marseilles”
  • Indonesian: “Marselha”
  • Indonesian: “Massalia”
  • Interlingua: “Marseille”
  • Interlingue: “Marseille”
  • Irish: “Marseille”
  • Italian: “Marseille”
  • Italian: “Marsiglia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Marseille”
  • Japanese: “マッシリア”
  • Japanese: “マルセーユ”
  • Japanese: “マルセイユ”
  • Japanese: “莫斯科”
  • Japanese: “馬耳塞”
  • Javanese: “Marseille”
  • Kabyle: “Murṣileyya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Marseille”
  • Kannada: “ಮರ್ಸಿಯ್ಲ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರ್ಸೇಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Marsel”
  • Kazakh: “Марсель”
  • Kirghiz: “Марсель”
  • Kongo: “Marseille”
  • Korean: “마르세유”
  • Korean: “마르세이유”
  • Kurdish: “Marsêy”
  • Kurdish: “Marsîlya”
  • Ladin: “Marseille”
  • Ladino: “Marseya”
  • Latin: “Marseille”
  • Latin: “Massalia”
  • Latin: “Massilia”
  • Latvian: “Marseija”
  • Latvian: “Marseille”
  • Latvian: “Marseja”
  • Latvian: “Marseļa”
  • Latvian: “Masālija”
  • Latvian: “Masīlija”
  • Ligurian: “Marseggia”
  • Ligurian: “Marsiggia”
  • Limburgan: “Marseille”
  • Lingala: “Marseille”
  • Literary Chinese: “馬賽”
  • Lithuanian: “Marseille”
  • Lithuanian: “Marselis”
  • Lithuanian: “Masalija”
  • Lithuanian: “Masilija”
  • Lombard: “Marseia”
  • Lombard: “Marsèia”
  • Lombard: “Marseilles”
  • Lombard: “Marseja”
  • Lombard: “Marsiglia”
  • Lombard: “Marsìglia”
  • Lombard: “Marsija”
  • Low German: “Marseille”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Marseille”
  • Luxembourgish: “Marseille”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Marseille”
  • Macedonian: “Marsegia”
  • Macedonian: “Marseglia”
  • Macedonian: “Marseilla”
  • Macedonian: “Marseille”
  • Macedonian: “Marseja”
  • Macedonian: “Marsèja”
  • Macedonian: “Marsejlo”
  • Macedonian: “Marseļa”
  • Macedonian: “Marsêle”
  • Macedonian: “Marselha”
  • Macedonian: “Marselis”
  • Macedonian: “Marsella - Marseille”
  • Macedonian: “Marsella”
  • Macedonian: “Marselye”
  • Macedonian: “Marsêy”
  • Macedonian: “Marseya”
  • Macedonian: “Marsiella”
  • Macedonian: “Marsigghia”
  • Macedonian: “Marsiggia”
  • Macedonian: “Marsiglia”
  • Macedonian: “Marsilia”
  • Macedonian: “Marsilya”
  • Macedonian: “Marsylia”
  • Macedonian: “Marsylijo”
  • Macedonian: “Massilia”
  • Macedonian: “Μασσαλία”
  • Macedonian: “Марсеј”
  • Macedonian: “Марсель”
  • Macedonian: “Марсељ”
  • Macedonian: “Марсилия”
  • Macedonian: “Марсэль”
  • Macedonian: “მარსელი”
  • Macedonian: “Մարսել”
  • Macedonian: “מארסיי”
  • Macedonian: “מרסיי”
  • Macedonian: “مارسی”
  • Macedonian: “مارسیلز”
  • Macedonian: “مرسيليا”
  • Macedonian: “ማርሴ”
  • Macedonian: “मार्सेल”
  • Macedonian: “मार्सैय”
  • Macedonian: “மர்சேய்”
  • Macedonian: “มาร์แซย์”
  • Macedonian: “မာဆေးမြို့”
  • Macedonian: “마르세유”
  • Macedonian: “マルセイユ”
  • Macedonian: “馬賽”
  • Macedonian: “马赛”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Marseille”
  • Malagasy: “Jean-Claude Gaudin”
  • Malagasy: “Marseille”
  • Malay: “Marseille”
  • Malayalam: “മാർസേയ്”
  • Maltese: “Marseilles”
  • Maltese: “Marsilja”
  • Marathi: “मार्सेल”
  • Mazanderani: “مارسی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Marseille”
  • Minangkabau: “Marseille”
  • Mingrelian: “მარსელი”
  • Moksha: “Марсэль”
  • Mongolian: “Марсель”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “مارسيليا”
  • Narom: “Marsèle”
  • Narom: “Marsêle”
  • Neapolitan: “Marseglia”
  • Neapolitan: “Marsiglia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Marseille”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marseille”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marseilles”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Massalia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Massilia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marseille”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marseilles”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marselha”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marsiho”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Massalia”
  • Norwegian: “Marseille”
  • Novial: “Marselha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat Focèa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Marselha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Marsiho”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Marsilha”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mæssilhȳð”
  • Ossetian: “Марсель”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਰਸੇਈ”
  • Papiamento: “Marseille”
  • Persian: “مارسی”
  • Picard: “Marseille”
  • Piemontese: “Marsèja”
  • Piemontese: “Marsija”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Marseii”
  • Polish: “Marseille”
  • Polish: “Marselha”
  • Polish: “Marsylia”
  • Pontic: “Μασσαλία”
  • Portuguese: “Marseille”
  • Portuguese: “Marselha”
  • Prussian: “Marseille”
  • Quechua: “Marseille”
  • Quechua: “Marselha”
  • Quechua: “Marsella”
  • Romagnol: “Marseille”
  • Romanian: “Marseille”
  • Romanian: “Marseilles”
  • Romanian: “Marsilia”
  • Romansh: “Marseille”
  • Russian: “Marseille”
  • Russian: “Марсель”
  • Russian: “Массалия”
  • Russian: “Массилия”
  • Sardinian: “Marsiglia”
  • Sardinian: “Marsìllia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Marseille”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Marselha”
  • Scots: “Marseille”
  • Scots: “Marselha”
  • Scots: “Massalia”
  • Scots: “Massilia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Marseille”
  • Serbian: “Marseille”
  • Serbian: “Марсеј”
  • Serbian: “Марсељ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Marseille”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Marsej”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Masilija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Massilia”
  • Sicilian: “Marsigghia”
  • Sicilian: “Marsiglia”
  • Sicilian: “Massilia”
  • Silesian: “Marsylijo”
  • Silesian: “Marsylijŏ”
  • Sinhala: “මාර්සේල්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Marseille”
  • Slovak: “Marseilles”
  • Slovenian: “Marseille”
  • Somali: “Marseille”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مارسی”
  • Spanish: “Marseille”
  • Spanish: “Marsella”
  • Spanish: “Masalia”
  • Spanish: “Masilia”
  • Spanish: “Massalia”
  • Spanish: “Massilia”
  • Swahili: “Marseille”
  • Swedish: “Marseille”
  • Swedish: “Marseilles”
  • Swedish: “Massalia”
  • Swedish: “Massilia”
  • Swiss German: “Marseille”
  • Tagalog: “Marsella”
  • Tajik: “Марсел”
  • Talysh: “Marsel”
  • Tamil: “மர்சேய்”
  • Tamil: “மார்சே”
  • Tatar: “Марсель”
  • Telugu: “మార్సే”
  • Thai: “Marseille”
  • Thai: “มาร์กเซ”
  • Thai: “มาร์กเซย”
  • Thai: “มาร์เซ”
  • Thai: “มาร์เซย์”
  • Thai: “มาร์แซย์”
  • Thai: “เมืองมาร์เซย์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Marseille”
  • Tumbuka: “Marseille”
  • Turkish: “Marseille”
  • Turkish: “Marseilles”
  • Turkish: “Marsilya”
  • Twi: “Marseille”
  • Ukrainian: “Марсель”
  • Ukrainian: “Массалія”
  • Ukrainian: “Массілія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Marseille”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Marsilija”
  • Urdu: “مارسئی”
  • Urdu: “مارسیلز”
  • Uzbek: “Marsel”
  • Venetian: “Marsegia”
  • Venetian: “Marseja”
  • Venetian: “Marsiglia”
  • Venetian: “Marsija”
  • Venetian: “Marsilia”
  • Veps: “Marsel‘”
  • Veps: “Marsel’”
  • Vietnamese: “Mạc Xây”
  • Vietnamese: “Mác-xây”
  • Vietnamese: “Mạc-xây”
  • Vietnamese: “Marseille”
  • Vietnamese: “Marselha”
  • Vlaams: “Marseille”
  • Vlax Romani: “Marseille”
  • Volapük: “Marseille”
  • Volapük: “Marselha”
  • Volapük: “Marsiho”
  • Walloon: “Marseille”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Marseille”
  • Welsh: “Marseille”
  • Welsh: “Marseilles”
  • Welsh: “Massalia”
  • Welsh: “Massilia”
  • Western Armenian: “Մարսէյլ”
  • Western Frisian: “Marseille”
  • Western Panjabi: “مارسیلز”
  • Wolof: “Marseille”
  • Wu Chinese: “马赛”
  • Yiddish: “מארסיי”
  • Yoruba: “Marseille”
  • Yue Chinese: “Marseille”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬些”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬些兒”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬舍路”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬賽”
  • Zeeuws: “Marseille”
  • Zulu: “Marseille”
  • “ma tomo Maseje”
  • “Marseille”

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