LatLon-Geneva: Facts and figures of the City of Geneva

Geneva: Facts & figures

This page offers tourist information about the city of Geneva, telling you all you need to know for a stay in this town and in Switzerland.

The City of Geneva by numbers - The Canton of Genva by numbers
The Swiss Confederation by numbers - Traveling in Switzerland: Useful infos

The City of Geneva by numbers

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GENEVA
Swiss Confederation
Canton of Geneva
Pierre Maudet (Rotation each year)

15,88 km²
190 725 (08.2011) - Les Genevois
11 900 Hab./km²
French
369 to 458 m
1200 - 1209, 1211, 1215, 1240, 1289
+41 - (0)22.

www.ville-ge.ch

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The Canton of Geneva by numbers

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Swiss Confederation
Canton of Geneva (GE) - since 1815
Geneva - Genève

Geneva (190 725 habitants) - Vernier (33 736)
Lancy (28 775) - Meyrin (21 835) - Carouge (20 058)

282,2 km²
464 604 (08.2011)
1 648 Hab./km²
French
5,6 % (07.2011)

www.ge.ch

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The Swiss Confederation by numbers

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Swiss Confederation

Bern
President of the Swiss Confederation: Doris Leuthard

Simonetta Sommaruga (PSS/SP) / Micheline Calmy-Rey (PSS/SP) / Johann Schneider-Ammann (PLR/FDP) / Doris Leuthard (PDC/CVP) / Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (PBD/BDP) / Ueli Maurer (UDC/SVP) / Didier Burkhalter (PLR/FDP)

UDC/SVP 54 - PSS/SP 46 - PRD/FDP 30 - PDC/CVP 28 - GPS 15 - GLP 12 - BDP 9 (2011)

Zürich (337 000) - Geneva (189 000) - Basel (169 000)

41 284 km²
7 700 000 habitants (31.12.2008)
187 Hab./km²
German (64%), French (20%), Italian (7%), Romansh (1%)

Swiss franc (CHF) € Rappen: 5, 10, 20, 50 and 1, 2, 5 Franc : 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 1000. 1 Swiss Franc = 100 Rappen

$ 43 195 (2008)
2,8 % (06.2011)
UTC +1 (+2 Summer)

- 01. August 1291 - Rütlischwur
- 1848 with the first Swiss federal constitutional

01. August

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Traveling in Switzerland: Useful infos

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(Train connection) Lausanne (33 min) - Yverdon (48 min) - Neuchâtel (1 h 08) - Bern (1 h 41) - Zürich (2 h 43) - Basel (2 h 39) - Lyon (1 h 44) - Paris (3 h 32) - Berlin (9 h 57)

Airports Geneva - Cointrin (6 min.)
Airports Zürich - Kloten (3 h 05)
Airports Bâle - Mulhouse-Freiburg (3 h 01)

A1, Zürich - Berne - Morat - Geneva
A41 (France) Annecy / A40 (Fr.) Bourg-en-Bresse (Lyon A42)

SBB/ CFF
Transports publics Genevois (TPG)
Taxi phone 022. 33 141 33
Europcar Rue de Lausanne 37 - 022. 909 69 90
Genève roule - Bains des Pâquis, Place du Rhône etc...

Sulgeneckstrasse 19, 3007 Bern +41 (0)31 357 70 11 - Web
Thunstrasse 50, 83, 3005 Bern +41 (0)31. 359 77 00 - Web
Willadingweg 78, 83, 3006 Bern +41 (0)31. 359 41 11 - Web
Jubiläumsstr. 41, 3005 Bern +41 (0)31. 359 41 11 - Web
Schosshaldenstr. 46. 3006 Bern +41 (0)31. 359 21 11 - Web
Kirchenfeldstrasse 77, 3006 Bern +41 (0)31. 356 52 52 - Web
Kalcheggweg 24, 3006 Bern +41 (0)31. 350 52 52
Elfenstr. 14, 3006 Bern +41 (0)31. 350 07 77

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