Geneva (canton)

This page is about the Swiss canton. For other places, see Geneva.

Geneva is a canton in Switzerland. The capital of the canton is Geneva City.

Canton
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 46°2′N 6°7′E
Capital	Geneva
Subdivisions	45 municipalities
Government
• Executive	Conseil d'État (7)
• Legislative	Grand Council (100)
Area
• Total	282.49 km2 (109.07 sq mi)
Population Template:Swiss populations ref 2017
• Total	495,249
• Density	1,753.16/km2 (4,540.65/sq mi)
ISO 3166 code	CH-GE
Highest point	516 m (1,693 ft): Les Arales
Lowest point	332 m (1,089 ft): Rhône at Chancy
Joined	1815
Languages	French
Website	GE.ch

The French name is Genève, The German name is Genf, in Italian it is Ginevra.

Geneva is the seat of many institutions of the United Nations. It has about 186.000 inhabitants and a very old university. About 960.000 people live in the urban area. Some of the urban area is in France. Only Zürich has more inhabitants in Switzerland.

File:Logo Genf.svg

Logo

History

In 1815, the city-state of Geneva became a part of Switzerland. It had at one time been the capital of the Kingdom of Burgundy.

The first traces of human civilization in Geneva, discovered on the shores of Lake Geneva French: [Lac Léman] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), date from around 3000 BC. The hill of the Old City, however, was not inhabited until 1000 BC. Later, when Rome conquered Geneva, it was defended by a small Celtic tribe. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar drove off an attack by the Helvetii. At the height of the Roman Empire, around 400 AD, Geneva was granted its own bishop.

Municipalities

Geneva does not have any districts. There are 45 municipalities in the canton:

Aire-la-Ville Anières Avully Avusy Bardonnex Bellevue Bernex Carouge Cartigny Céligny Chancy Chêne-Bougeries Chêne-Bourg Choulex Collex-Bossy

Collonge-Bellerive Cologny Confignon Corsier Dardagny Genève Genthod Grand-Saconnex Gy Hermance Jussy Laconnex Lancy Meinier Meyrin

Onex Perly-Certoux Plan-les-Ouates Pregny-Chambésy Presinge Puplinge Russin Satigny Soral Thônex Troinex Vandœuvres Vernier Versoix Veyrier

Geneva (canton) Media

• Map Kingdom Arelat EN.png

  The Kingdom of Arelat and the Capetian Duchy of Burgundy in the 12/13th century

• Karte Stadtstaat Bern Wachstum.png

  Territories acquired by Bern from Savoie, 1339-1798

• Vue de Genève 1550.jpg

  View of Geneva in 1550 from the lake, showing the main city on the hill and the bridge linking it to Saint-Gervais on the right bank of the Rhone river

• Escalade-battle-2.jpg

  L'Escaladecode: fr is deprecated , the last attempt by Savoy to take Geneva by force, 1602

• Genève - btv1b53152762r (1 of 2).jpg

  Geneva's fortifications by mid-17th century

• The cantons and allies of the Old Swiss Confederacy in the 18th century. Geneva is a group of small territories in the southwest.

• Geneva civitas Bastions.jpg

  Detail of the Parc des Bastions in 1752, in a map ordered by Pierre Mouchon

• Karte-Departement-Léman-1798.png

  Map of the French département of Léman established in 1798