Grand Genève
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Grand Genève is a local grouping of transnational cooperation, a public entity under Swiss law, in charge of organizing cooperation within the cross-border metropolitan area of Geneva. The Grand Genèv
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Canton of Geneva
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The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva, is one of the 26 cantons of the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of forty-five municipalities, and the seat of the government and
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…within the cross-border metropolitan area of Geneva (in particular metropolitan transports). The Grand Genève GLCT extends over Switzerland (entire Canton of Geneva and the canton of Vaud's entire Nyon District) and France (Pôle métropolitain du Genevois français , literally "Metropolitan hub of the French Genevan…
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the lack of connection between Annemasse and Geneva was a topic of alarm already in the 19th century. The original citation read: "elegant Geneva and the Savoyard maid examine in the shrouded horizon the railway connection between Geneva and Savoy... Geneva... Anne!... Anne... sister Anne!... do you see anything coming?"
Charles Pictet de Rochemont, the Geneva envoy to the Congress of Vienna who negotiated the canton's borders
Borders after the Congress of Vienna: in yellow, the previous lands of Geneva; in blue, lands ceded by France; in pink, lands ceded by Savoy.