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Marseille

Marseille is a city with a metropolitan population of 1.668 million,1 798 thousand of which live in the city proper,2 situated just east of the delta of the Rhône River and on a gulf that is part of the Mediterranean Sea, within the Bouches-du-Rhône (Mouths of the Rhône) Department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Provence-Alps-Azure Coast) Region of France. The tallest modern building is the 33 story CMA CGM, an office tower (2010). The Notre-Dame de la Garde church (1864) sits prominently atop a hill, and the Unité d'Habitation, designed by Le Corbusier, is a 19 story residential tower with amenities (1952).3

The city hosts an important container port.4

External references

View of Marseille, including the Notre-Dame de la Garde church, Bouches-du-Rhône (Mouths of the Rhône) Department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Provence-Alps-Azure Coast) Region, France

Historical map

map showing part of the République de France, and part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2000 CE

Footnotes

1. Figure for 2012 in world-gazetteer.com, accessed 2/6/2013.
2. http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_France, accessed 2/5/2015.
3. Most of the information about buildings is from emporis.com, accessed 6/29/2015. The date for the church comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_la_Garde, accessed 6/29/2015.
4. The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.