Marseille with numbers
Marseille WITH NUMBERS
- 2600 Years of history, the oldest city of France
- 2nd City in France, 869 815 inhabitants (INSEE 2018)
- Biggest french « community of communes » Marseille Provence Metrropole, encompassing 18 communes and 1 200 000 inhabitants
- Area : 240 km2 including 100 km2 of natural areas
- Coastline : 57 km including 20 km of « Calanques »
- 1st Calanques National Park – european semi-urban park
- Climate : 300 days of sunshine per year
- Average temperatures : Spring 19°C / Summer 25°C / Autumn 14 °C / Winter 12 °C
- Jumelage avec 13 villes dans le monde : www.marseille.fr
- 1st Low cost airport in Europe
- 1st Cruise and feight port of France (1,75 million passengers in 2018)
- 2nd French centre for scientific and research in France
- 8 Competitiveness clusters
- 1st French-speaking university in the world with 74 000 students
- 17 Museums
- More than 5 million tourists stayed in Marseille and 7 million in Marseille Metropole in 2019
- 2nd most filmed city in France
- World Water Capital since 1996, in march 2013 welcome the World Water Forum
- 2013 Marseille-Provence European Capital of Culture
- 2016 Marseille welcomes the European Football Championship, with 6 matches including a semi-final
- 2017 Marseille European Capital of Sport
- 2014 Label French Tech
- 4nd City of France according to the ICCA ranking
- 482 350 delegates day for 982 business events in 2019
PRIZE list
- « The most business friendly city », Entreprise & Expansion magazine
- France’s number 4th city in the ICCA rankings for international conference facilities
- « European City of the year award 2014 », Royal Academy of Urbanism in London
- The MuCEM (Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations) won the 2015 Council of Europe Museum Prize
- Marseille has entered the top 5 Mediterranean ports for cruises
- Trip Advisor ranked Marseille in the top 3 favourite French destinations for web users all over the world
- National Geographic placed its harbour among the ten most beautiful in Europe !
- Le Nouveau Stade Vélodrome : "the most beautiful stadium in Europe" Eurosport (december 2015)