Geneva
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Geneva is a city and a canton in Switzerland.
The French name is Genève, The German name is Genf, in Italian it's Ginevra. Geneva is the seat of many institutions of the United Nations. It has about 186,000 inhabitants and a very old university. Only Zürich has more inhabitants in Switzerland
[edit] History
In 1815, the city-state of Geneva became a part of Switzerland. It had at one time briefly been the capital of the Kingdom of Burgundy.
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