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Estimating population sizes before censuses were conducted is a difficult task. [1] ... City Location 3700 BC 3400 BC 3100 BC ... North Korea Tarquinia: Italy 20,000 ...
1880 – Population: 99,712 in canton. [25] 1881 – Société Genevoise de Photographie founded. [29] 1883 – 23 November: Steamboat collision on Lake Geneva. [3] 1886 Geneva Seal adopted. Jet d'Eau (fountain) installed. 1891 – International Peace Bureau headquartered in Geneva. [30] 1892 – 9 July: Steamboat explosion on Lake Geneva. [3]
Map of the Helvetic Republic (1798) Map of Switzerland in 1815 New cantons were added only in the modern period, during 1803–1815; this mostly concerned former subject territories now recognized as full cantons (such as Vaud, Ticino and Aargau), and the full integration of territories that had been more loosely allied to the Confederacy (such as Geneva, Valais and Grisons).
Geneva first appears in history as an Allobrogian border town, fortified against the Celtic Helvetii tribe, which the Roman Republic took in 121 BC.. In 58 BC, Caesar, Roman governor of Gaul, destroyed the Rhône bridge at Geneva and built a 19-mile earthwork from Lake Geneva to the Jura Mountains in order to block the migration of the Helvetii, who "attempted, sometimes by day, more often by ...
City 1 – 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 Agrigento: 50,000 [163]Athens: 30,000 – 90,000 110,000 25,000
The city of Geneva (Ville de Genève) had a population of 203,856 in January 2021 [7] within its municipal territory of 16 km 2 (6 sq mi). [8] The Geneva metropolitan area as officially defined by Eurostat , [ 9 ] including suburbs and exurbs in Vaud and the French departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie , extends over 2,292 km 2 (885 sq mi) [ 10 ...
The population of Switzerland 1970–2005. Data from Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2005; number of inhabitants in thousands. Population pyramid of Switzerland in 2021 by citizenship. Unlike many other OECD countries, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office does not collect any data on racial identity or ethnic identity. [28]
According to the 2020 United States census, North Carolina is the 9th-most populous state with 10,439,388 inhabitants, but the 28th-largest by land area spanning 53,819 square miles (139,390 km 2) of land. [1] [2] North Carolina is divided into 100 counties and contains 551 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, or villages. [3]