Geneva is the capital of the corner with he himself name; it is the biggest city of Switzerland after Zurich. It is located in the western effusion from the Rhone to borders of Lago Lemán and is almost completely surrounded by French territory.
Great number of international organizations has their seats in Geneva: among others the European seat of the United Nations, the Committee the International of the Red Cross (CICR), the World-wide Organization of the Health (the WHO), the Organization the International of Trabajo (OIT), the High Police station of the Nations United for Refugiados (ACNUR) and the European Center of Investigación Nuclear (CERN).
Geneva also is well-known in the world by its clocks. The “striker pin of Geneva” (Poinçon de Genève) is a quality seal that is only granted to a very select range of luxury clocks according to very strict criteria. In Geneva an exclusive fair of the clock, the Hall the International the Jewelry store of Prestige is celebrated every year.
Geneva also has an international fair of the automobile that is celebrated every year in the month of March. Other Genevan samples are the Fair of the Inventors and the Fair of book.
The city of Calvin has the airport (Cointrin) greater after the one of Kloten in Zurich. It also has direct railway connection with Paris and with Milan through valley of the Rhone. In Switzerland it has direct trains to the Lake of Constanza through Bern and Zurich in the Eastern end of the central Plain. In international soundings on the quality of life in the main cities of the world, Geneva usually occupies a position very near the end of the ranking.

History
Geneva already was a population at time celta. The Roman time one became an axis of the transfer. The Romans gave emporio the name him of Genava. The Germanic town of the Burgundian, which they occupied the Genevan region in century V, transformed the large city into capital of their kingdom during a time.
The city was host of a bishopric during almost four hundred years until the coming of the Reformation; the bishop was expelled and the city became one of the most important centers of the European Protestantism with the theocratic regime of Juan Calvin.
The affluence of religious refugees of all Europe contributed to the economic and cultural height of the city. In 1602 the city defeated the army of Duke de Saboya, forcing to him to leave any territorial vindication. Geneva was a small one city-been throughout centuries XVII and XVIII until 1798, when time was incorporated to France nearly until it joined the Swiss Confederation in 1815 like sovereign corner.