Geneva Geneva Geneva (; ; ; ; ; ) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. The municipality ("ville de Genève") has a population () of , and the canton (essentially the city and its inner-ring suburbs) has residents. In 2014, the compact "agglomération du Grand Genève" had 946,000 inhabitants in 212 communities in both Switzerland and France. Within Swiss territory, the commuter area named ""Métropole lémanique"" contains
French name of the name, being associated with claims to a place, but this is not always the case. The name de Gaulle, for example, is not a traditional French name with a "particule", but a Flemish Dutch name that evolved from a form of "De Walle" meaning "the wall". A popular misconception is that the "particule" "De-" included in the name always indicates membership of the nobility, that is to say, an original separated "de" that was linked to the name during the French revolution as "De-". That is sometimes true. Almost all nobility titles are of the form [title] <nowiki>[</nowiki>particle