Sometime before 1870, Geneva was the most populous of all the Swiss cities. Now Zurich clearly superior to its population, and Basel ahead of some several thousand, but, nevertheless, Geneva, Bern and Lausanne more. Today, Geneva can boast of not more than 180-thousand population, which to the Canton of Geneva as a whole, there are about 420,000 people. Geneva area has 7 more cities (or, rather, towns ...): Vernier (Vernier) - 30,000, Lancy (Lancy) - 26,000, Meran (Meyrin) - 20,000, Carouge (Carouge) - 18,000, One (Onex) - 16,500, Tone (Thonex) - 13,000 and Versoix (Versoix) - 11,000. Geneva in the first place in Switzerland on the number of foreigners living there: about 40% of the total population of the city are more than 180 nationalities.
