Geneva (disambiguation)

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Geneva is a city in Switzerland.

Geneva may also refer to:

• The Geneva Conventions, a set of international treaties chiefly concerning the treatment of non-combatants and prisoners of war
• Canton of Geneva in Switzerland, of which the city of Geneva is the capital
• Lake Geneva, on which the city and canton are situated, also known as Lake Léman
• Geneva, a Fancied Page of History in Three Acts, a 1938 play by George Bernard Shaw
• Geneva (band), a Britpop band from the mid 1990s
• Geneva (typeface), a typeface commonly used in Macintosh computers
• Geneva College, a private liberal arts college in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
• A Geneva drive, a mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion
• Geneva (album), by early 1980s pop group Love Of Life Orchestra
• Geneva ERS, IBM's enterprise reporting system software
• Geneva Steel, World War II-era steel factory built on Utah Lake in Vineyard, Utah
• Geneva steam automobile company, a defunct American automobile manufacturer
• Geneva (name), a first name for women

[edit] United States

Geneva is also the name of some places in the United States:

• Geneva, Alabama, seat of Geneva County, Alabama (approx. population in 2000: 4,400)
• Geneva, Florida (2,600)
• Geneva, Georgia (100)
• Geneva, Illinois (19,500)
• Geneva, Indiana:
  • Geneva, Indiana (1,300)
  • Geneva, Shelby County, Indiana
• Geneva, Iowa (200)
• Geneva Township, Michigan:
  • Geneva Township, Midland County, Michigan (1,100)
  • Geneva Township, Van Buren County, Michigan (4,000)
• Geneva, Minnesota
  • Geneva, Minnesota (400)
  • Geneva Township, Minnesota (400)
• Geneva, Nebraska (2,200)
• Geneva, New York includes:
  • Geneva (city), New York (13,500)
  • Geneva (town), New York (3,000)
• Geneva, Ohio
  • Geneva, Ohio (6,500)
  • Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio (1,500)
  • Geneva Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio
• Geneva, Pennsylvania (100)
• Geneva, Washington (2,000)
• Geneva, Wisconsin:
  • Geneva, Wisconsin (4,000)
  • Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (7,100), for the town and lake.

[edit] Similar words

There are names that have a similar form to Geneva in other languages

• Génova, Spanish for Genoa
• Ginebra, Spanish for Geneva, gin and Guinevere