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Originally Posted by 10023
^ But Aix-en-Provence isn’t part of metro Marseille as Americans would understand it. If you’re going to call Aix part of Marseille, then basically all of Holland is a metro area.
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It's part of metro area as Americans census would define it. More like Dallas-Forth Worth than New York City.
Obviously, it's not a suburb, more like a second core of a larger metropoitan area. In census, the metropolitan area is called Marseille - Aix-en-Provence metropolitan area.
Aix-en-Provence being a city with a long history and Marseille having a pretty weak core (economically).
If we broke Marseille-Aix-en-Provence metro area in two, Aix-en-Provence would be well over 150,000 inhabitants and then excluded for this thread.