NW Italy
Liguria
Province of Genoa

Genoa

Genoa is a historic port city in northern , the capital of the region. As a tourist attraction, it is often overshadowed by cities such as or , even though it has a long history as a rich and powerful trade centre.
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  • Type: City with 587,000 residents
  • Description: Italian city
  • Also known as: “Genès”, “Genoa, Italy”, “Genova”, “Genova, Italy”, and “Zena”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stadio Luigi Ferraris and Aquarium of Genoa.

Stadium
Photo: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris, also known as the Marassi from the name of the neighbourhood where it is located, is a multi-use stadium in Genoa, Italy.

Public aquarium
Photo: Stillyna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the largest aquarium in . Located in the Old Harbour area of Genoa, , the 33,000-square-foot aquarium is a member organization of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, and welcomes more than 1.2 million visitors each year.

Railway station
Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the central station of Genoa and is located on Piazza Acquaverde, occupying the entire north side of Via Andrea Doria—where the station entrance is located—in the town centre and a short distance from the Palazzo del Principe, from which it takes its name.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Foce and Prè.

Suburb
Photo: Eylenbosch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
Photo: Superchilum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighbourhood in the old town of the Italian city of Genoa. It was one of the six sestieri of ancient Genoa. At present it is part of Municipio I of Great Genoa.

Suburb
Photo: Twice25, CC BY 2.5.
is an affluent residential neighbourhood of the Italian city of Genoa, located 3 kilometres east of the city centre. It was formerly an independent comune, named San Francesco d', included in the city of Genoa in 1873.

Genoa

Latitude
44.4073° or 44° 24′ 26″ north
Longitude
8.9339° or 8° 56′ 2″ east
Population
587,000
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
IATA airport code
GOA
United Nations Location Code
IT GOA
Open location code
8FPCCW4M+WG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 66586322
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3176219
Wiki­data ID
Q1449
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Genoa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Genua”
  • Albanian: “Gjenova”
  • Amharic: “ጄኖቫ”
  • Arabic: “جنوة”
  • Aragonese: “Chenova”
  • Armenian: “Ջենովա”
  • Arpitan: “Gêna”
  • Asturian: “Xénova”
  • Aymara: “Genova”
  • Azerbaijani: “Genuya”
  • Balinese: “Génova”
  • Bashkir: “Генуя”
  • Basque: “Genova”
  • Belarusian: “Генуя”
  • Bengali: “জেনোভা”
  • Bosnian: “Genova”
  • Breton: “Genova”
  • Bulgarian: “Генуа”
  • Burmese: “ဂျီနိုအာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Gènova”
  • Cebuano: “Genoa”
  • Central Bikol: “Genoa”
  • Central Kanuri: “Genoa”
  • Central Kurdish: “جەنەوا”
  • Chechen: “Генуя”
  • Chinese: “Genoa”
  • Chinese: “柔鲁”
  • Chinese: “热那亚”
  • Chinese: “熱内亞”
  • Chinese: “熱拿亞”
  • Chinese: “熱諾瓦”
  • Chinese: “熱那亞”
  • Chuvash: “Генуя”
  • Corsican: “Genuva”
  • Corsican: “Gènuva”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Cenova”
  • Croatian: “Genova”
  • Czech: “Janov”
  • Danish: “Genova”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cenova”
  • Dutch: “Genua”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جينوا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “چينوا”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝenovo”
  • Estonian: “Genova”
  • Extremaduran: “Génova”
  • Finnish: “Genova”
  • French: “Gênes”
  • Friulian: “Gjenue”
  • Galician: “Xénova”
  • Georgian: “გენუა”
  • German: “Genoa”
  • German: “Genova”
  • German: “Genua”
  • Greek: “Γένοβα”
  • Gujarati: “જેનોઆ”
  • Hausa: “Genoa”
  • Hebrew: “ג’נובה”
  • Hebrew: “גנואה”
  • Hindi: “जेनोआ”
  • Hungarian: “Genova”
  • Hungarian: “Génua”
  • Icelandic: “Genúa”
  • Ido: “Genova”
  • Inari Sami: “Genova”
  • Indonesian: “Genova”
  • Interlingua: “Genua”
  • Irish: “Genova”
  • Italian: “Comune di Genova”
  • Italian: “Genova”
  • Italian: “Genua”
  • Japanese: “ジェーノヴァ”
  • Japanese: “ジェノヴァ”
  • Japanese: “ジェノバ”
  • Japanese: “ゼノア”
  • Javanese: “Genova”
  • Kabyle: “Ǧenova”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿನೋವಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಜೆನೋವ”
  • Kazakh: “Генуя”
  • Kirghiz: “Генуя”
  • Kölsch: “Genua”
  • Komi: “Генуя”
  • Korean: “제노바”
  • Kurdish: “Genova”
  • Ladin: “Genova”
  • Ladino: “Genova”
  • Latin: “Genua”
  • Latvian: “Dženova”
  • Latvian: “Zena”
  • Ligurian: “Ge̍nua”
  • Ligurian: “Ginuva”
  • Ligurian: “Zena”
  • Ligurian: “Zêna”
  • Limburgan: “Genua (sjtad)”
  • Limburgan: “Genua”
  • Literary Chinese: “熱那亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Genuja”
  • Lombard: “Genua”
  • Luxembourgish: “Genua”
  • Macedonian: “Џенова”
  • Malagasy: “Genova”
  • Malay: “Genoa”
  • Malayalam: “ജെനോവ”
  • Maltese: “Genova”
  • Maltese: “Ġenova”
  • Maori: “Henoa”
  • Marathi: “जेनोवा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Genoa”
  • Mingrelian: “გენუა”
  • Moksha: “Гэнуя”
  • Mongolian: “Генуя”
  • Mongolian: “Женова”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جينوڤا”
  • Neapolitan: “Genova”
  • Northern Frisian: “Genua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Genova”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Genova”
  • Norwegian: “Genova”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gènoa”
  • Ossetian: “Генуя”
  • Panjabi: “ਜੇਨੋਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Genova”
  • Persian: “جنوا”
  • Piemontese: “Génoa”
  • Polish: “Genua”
  • Portuguese: “Génova”
  • Portuguese: “Gênova”
  • Quechua: “Genova”
  • Romanian: “Genova”
  • Russian: “Генуя”
  • Sanskrit: “जेनोवा”
  • Santali: “ᱡᱮᱱᱳᱣᱚ”
  • Santali: “ᱡᱮᱱᱳᱣᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Genova”
  • Sardinian: “Gènova”
  • Scots: “Genoa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Genova”
  • Serbian: “Genova”
  • Serbian: “Zena”
  • Serbian: “Ђенова”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Genova”
  • Shona: “Jenova”
  • Sicilian: “Gènuva”
  • Silesian: “Genova”
  • Sinhala: “ජිනොවා”
  • Sinhala: “ජිනෝවා”
  • Slovak: “Janov”
  • Slovenian: “Genova”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جینووا”
  • Spanish: “Genova”
  • Spanish: “Génova”
  • Swahili: “Genova”
  • Swedish: “Genua”
  • Swiss German: “Genua”
  • Tagalog: “Genova”
  • Tajik: “Генуя”
  • Talysh: “Genujə”
  • Talysh: “Genuya”
  • Tamil: “செனோவா”
  • Tamil: “ஜெநோஆ”
  • Tatar: “Genuya”
  • Tatar: “Җенова”
  • Telugu: “జెనోవా”
  • Thai: “เจนัว”
  • Thai: “เจโนวา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Genua”
  • Turkish: “Cenova”
  • Turkmen: “Genoa”
  • Twi: “Genova”
  • Ukrainian: “Генуя”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Genua”
  • Urdu: “جینوا”
  • Uzbek: “Genuya”
  • Venetian: “Genoa”
  • Venetian: “Gènoa”
  • Venetian: “Genova”
  • Venetian: “Xenoa”
  • Venetian: “Xènoa”
  • Venetian: “Zenoa”
  • Venetian: “Zènoa”
  • Veps: “Genui”
  • Vietnamese: “Genova”
  • Vlaams: “Genua”
  • Vlax Romani: “Genoa”
  • Volapük: “Genova”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Genova”
  • Welsh: “Genova”
  • Western Armenian: “Գենուա”
  • Western Frisian: “Genua”
  • Western Panjabi: “جینوآ”
  • Wu Chinese: “热那亚”
  • Xhosa: “Genoa”
  • Yiddish: “יאנאווע, איטאליע”
  • Yiddish: “יאנאווע”
  • Yue Chinese: “熱那亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Genua”
  • “Genova”
  • “Genove”
  • “Zêna”

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