Located on the French Riviera, the southeastern coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the French Alps, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region after Marseille.
The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million on an area of 744 km 2 (287 sq mi). Nice ( / n iː s/ NEESS, French pronunciation: ⓘ Niçard: Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, nonstandard, pronounced Italian: Nizza Ligurian: Nissa Ancient Greek: Νίκαια Latin: Nicaea) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
