Geneva

Geneva is the second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated in the south west 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.

The city of Geneva had a population of 203,951 in 2020 within its small municipal territory of 16 km2, but the Canton of Geneva had a population of 504,128 over 246 km2, and together with the suburbs and exurbs located in the canton of Vaud and in the French departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie the cross-border Geneva metropolitan area as officially defined by Eurostat, which extends over 2,292 km2, had a population of 1,044,766 in Jan. 2020.Since 2013, the Canton of Geneva, the Nyon District, and the Pôle métropolitain du Genevois français, this last one a federation of eight French intercommunal councils, have formed Grand Genève, a Local Grouping of Transnational Cooperation in…