Geneva

Geneva is the second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous of the French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, and a centre for international diplomacy. Geneva hosts the highest number of international organizations in the world.The city of Geneva had a population of 203,951 in January 2020 within its municipal territory of 16 km2, but the larger Canton of Geneva had a population of 504,128 over 246 km2 . The Geneva metropolitan area as officially defined by Eurostat, including suburbs and exurbs in Vaud and the French departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie, extends over 2,292 km2 and had a population of 1,044,766 at the time.Since 2013, the Canton of Geneva, the Nyon District, and the Pôle métropolitain du Genevois français, have formed Grand Genève, a Local Grouping of Transnational Cooperation in charge of organizing cooperation within the cross-border metropolitan area of Geneva . The Grand Genève GLCT extends over 1,996 km2 and had a population of 1,037,407 in Jan.

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