Western Switzerland
Canton of Geneva
Geneva

Geneva

Geneva, 's second-most populous city and the largest French-speaking city in Switzerland, is one of the world's major centres of international diplomacy, having served as the site of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross since its foundation in 1863.
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  • Type: City with 192,000 residents
  • Description: city in Switzerland and capital of its canton
  • Also known as: “Geneva GE”, “Geneve”, “Genève”, and “Genf”
  • Postal codes: 1200, 1201, 1203-1209, and 1211

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jet d’Eau and Genève-Cornavin Railway Station.

Fountain
Photo: Graymo86, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Jet d'Eau is a large fountain in Geneva, and is one of the city's most famous landmarks, being featured on the city's official tourism web site.

Railway station
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Geneva railway station, also known as Geneva Cornavin railway station, is Geneva's main train station, located in the centre of the city. The immediate area surrounding it is known as Cornavin; both names can be used interchangeably.

Church
Photo: Yann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint Peter's Cathedral Geneva is a historic church in Geneva, . Since 1535 it has been the principal church of the Protestant Church of Geneva and a central site of the Protestant Reformation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carouge and Lancy.

Town
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Town
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Town
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Geneva

Latitude
46.2018° or 46° 12′ 6″ north
Longitude
6.1466° or 6° 8′ 48″ east
Population
192,000
Elevation
400 metres (1,312 feet)
IATA airport code
GVA
United Nations Location Code
CH GVA
Open location code
8FR8642W+PJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 33622904
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2660646
Wiki­data ID
Q71
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Geneva” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Geneve”
  • Afrikaans: “Genève”
  • Albanian: “Gjeneva”
  • Amharic: “ዠኔቭ”
  • Arabic: “جنيف”
  • Aragonese: “Chinevra”
  • Armenian: “Ժնև”
  • Arpitan: “Geneva”
  • Asturian: “Xinebra”
  • Avaric: “Женева”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cenevrə”
  • Balinese: “Jenéwa”
  • Bashkir: “Женева”
  • Basque: “Geneva”
  • Basque: “Ginebra”
  • Bavarian: “Genf”
  • Belarusian: “Жэнева”
  • Belarusian: “Жэнэва”
  • Bengali: “জেনেভা”
  • Bhojpuri: “जिनेवा”
  • Bhojpuri: “जॆनेवा”
  • Bhojpuri: “जेनीवा”
  • Bhojpuri: “जेनेवा”
  • Bosnian: “Ženeva”
  • Breton: “Geneva”
  • Bulgarian: “Женева”
  • Burmese: “ဂျနီဗာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ginebra”
  • Cebuano: “Genève (kapital sa kanton)”
  • Cebuano: “Genève”
  • Central Kurdish: “ژنێڤ”
  • Chavacano: “Ginebra”
  • Chechen: “Женева”
  • Chinese: “Genève”
  • Chinese: “Rìnèiwǎ”
  • Chinese: “日內瓦”
  • Chinese: “日内瓦”
  • Chuvash: “Женева”
  • Corsican: “Ghjinevra”
  • Corsican: “Ginevra”
  • Croatian: “Ženeva”
  • Czech: “Ženeva”
  • Danish: “Geneve”
  • Danish: “Genève”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cenevre”
  • Dotyali: “जेनेभा”
  • Dutch: “Geneve”
  • Dutch: “Genève”
  • Eastern Mari: “Женева”
  • Eastern Mari: “Женеве”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جنيف”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “چينيڤ”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝenevo”
  • Estonian: “Genf”
  • Extremaduran: “Ginebra”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Geneva”
  • Fijian: “Jeneva”
  • Finnish: “Geneve”
  • Finnish: “Genève”
  • Finnish: “Genf”
  • French: “Cité de Calvin”
  • French: “GE”
  • French: “Geneve”
  • French: “Genève”
  • French: “Ville de Genève”
  • Galician: “Xenebra, Suíza”
  • Galician: “Xenebra”
  • Galician: “Xinebra”
  • Georgian: “ჟენევა”
  • German: “Genève”
  • German: “Genf”
  • German: “Stadt Genf”
  • German: “Ville de Genève”
  • Greek: “Γενέβη”
  • Greek: “Γενευη”
  • Greek: “Γενεύη”
  • Guarani: “Ginebra”
  • Gujarati: “જિનેવા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Geneva”
  • Hausa: “Geneva”
  • Hebrew: “ז’נבה”
  • Hebrew: “זנבה”
  • Hindi: “जिनेवा”
  • Hungarian: “Genève”
  • Hungarian: “Genf”
  • Icelandic: “Genf”
  • Ido: “Genève”
  • Iloko: “Hinebra”
  • Indonesian: “Jenewa”
  • Interlingua: “Geneva”
  • Interlingue: “Geneva”
  • Irish: “an Ghinéiv”
  • Irish: “An Ghinéiv”
  • Italian: “Ginevra”
  • Japanese: “ジュネーヴ”
  • Japanese: “ジュネーブ”
  • Javanese: “Jenéwa”
  • Kabiyè: “Zeenɛɛvɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Jenev”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿನಿವಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಜೆನೇವ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Jeneva”
  • Kashubian: “Genf”
  • Kazakh: “Женева”
  • Kikuyu: “Geneva”
  • Kirghiz: “Женева”
  • Komi: “Женева”
  • Korean: “제네바”
  • Korean: “주네브”
  • Kotava: “Genève”
  • Kurdish: “Cenevre”
  • Kurdish: “Jenev”
  • Ladin: “Genevra”
  • Latin: “Genava”
  • Latvian: “Ženēva”
  • Limburgan: “Genf”
  • Lingala: “Shnɛ́f”
  • Literary Chinese: “日內瓦”
  • Lithuanian: “Ženeva”
  • Lojban: “tcadrjenevu”
  • Lombard: “Ginevra”
  • Low German: “Genf”
  • Luxembourgish: “Genf”
  • Macedonian: “Женева”
  • Malagasy: “Geneva”
  • Malay: “Geneva”
  • Malay: “جنيۏا”
  • Malayalam: “ജനീവ”
  • Maltese: “Ġinevra”
  • Marathi: “जिनिव्हा”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Geneva”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Genève”
  • Mingrelian: “ჟენევა”
  • Moksha: “Жэнэва”
  • Mongolian: “Женев”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جونيڤ”
  • Narom: “Génève”
  • Nauru: “Genève”
  • Neapolitan: “Ginevra”
  • Nepali: “जेनेभा”
  • Newari: “जेनेभा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Genf”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Genève”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Genève”
  • Norwegian: “Genève”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Genèva”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Genf”
  • Oriya: “ଜେନେଭା”
  • Ossetian: “Женевæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਨੇਵਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਿਨੇਵਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Ginebra”
  • Persian: “ژنو”
  • Picard: “Genève”
  • Piemontese: “Gëneva”
  • Polish: “Genewa”
  • Portuguese: “Genebra”
  • Pushto: “ژینو”
  • Quechua: “Genève”
  • Romanian: “Geneva”
  • Romansh: “Genevra”
  • Russian: “Женева”
  • Sanskrit: “जिनीवा”
  • Sardinian: “Ginevra”
  • Scots: “Geneva”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Geneva”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Genève”
  • Serbian: “Женева”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ženeva”
  • Sicilian: “Ginevra”
  • Silesian: “Genève”
  • Sindhi: “جنيوا”
  • Sindhi: “جينوا”
  • Sindhi: “جينيوا”
  • Sinhala: “ජිනීවා”
  • Slovak: “Ženeva”
  • Slovenian: “Ženeva”
  • Somali: “Jineefa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ژنو”
  • Spanish: “Geneva”
  • Spanish: “Ginebra”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵊⵓⵏⵉⴼ”
  • Swahili: “Geneva”
  • Swedish: “Geneve”
  • Swedish: “Genève”
  • Swedish: “Genf”
  • Swiss German: “Gämf”
  • Swiss German: “Genève”
  • Swiss German: “Genf”
  • Tagalog: “Geneva”
  • Tajik: “Женева”
  • Tamil: “ஜெனீவா”
  • Tatar: “Женева”
  • Tatar: “Җәнәү”
  • Telugu: “జెనీవా నగరం”
  • Telugu: “జెనీవా”
  • Thai: “เจนีวา”
  • Tibetan: “ཀྲེ་ནེ་ཝ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ጀነቫ”
  • Tigrinya: “ጀኔቫ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Genf”
  • Turkish: “Cenevre”
  • Turkish: “Cité de Calvin”
  • Turkish: “GE”
  • Turkish: “Geneva”
  • Turkish: “Geneve”
  • Turkish: “Genève”
  • Turkish: “Genf”
  • Turkish: “Ginevra”
  • Turkish: “Stadt Genf”
  • Turkish: “Ville de Genève”
  • Turkmen: “Ženewa”
  • Uighur: “Jenwe”
  • Ukrainian: “Женева”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Geneva”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Genf”
  • Urdu: “جنیوا”
  • Uzbek: “Jeneva”
  • Venetian: “Zenevra”
  • Veps: “Ženev”
  • Vietnamese: “Geneva”
  • Vietnamese: “Genève”
  • Volapük: “Genève”
  • Walloon: “Djineve”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Geneva”
  • Welsh: “Genefa”
  • Western Armenian: “Ժընեւ”
  • Western Frisian: “Genève”
  • Western Frisian: “Genêve”
  • Western Panjabi: “جنیوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “日内瓦”
  • Wu Chinese: “极乃伐”
  • Xhosa: “EGeneva”
  • Yiddish: “גענף”
  • Yoruba: “Geneva”
  • Yue Chinese: “日內瓦”
  • Zeeuws: “Genève”
  • “ma tomo Sene”
  • “जेनेवा”

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