Editing Geneva (section)

===Metropolitan cooperation===
The city centre of Geneva is located only {{convert|1.9|km|mi|1|abbr=on}} from the border of [[France]]. As a result, the [[urban area]] and the [[metropolitan area]] largely extend across the border on French territory. Due to the small size of the municipality of Geneva ({{convert|16|km2|sqmi|0|abbr=on}})<ref name=land_area /> and extension of the urban area over an international border, official bodies of transnational cooperation were developed as early as the 1970s to manage the cross-border Greater Geneva area at a metropolitan level.

In 1973, a Franco-Swiss agreement created the {{lang|fr|Comité régional franco-genevois}} ('Franco-Genevan Regional Committee', {{lang|fr|CRFG}}). In 1997 an 'Urban planning charter' of the CRFG defined for the first time a planning territory called {{lang|fr|agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise}} ('Franco-[[Vaud]]-Genevan urban area'). 2001 saw the creation of a {{lang|fr|Comité stratégique de développement des transports publics régionaux}} ('Strategic Committee for the Development of Regional Public Transports', {{lang|fr|DTPR}}), a committee which adopted in 2003 a 'Charter for Public Transports', first step in the development of a metropolitan, cross-border [[commuter rail]] network (see [[Léman Express]]).

In 2004, a public transnational body called {{lang|fr|Projet d’agglomération franco-valdo-genevois}} ('Franco-Vaud-Genevan urban area project') was created to serve as the main body of metropolitan cooperation for the planning territory defined in 1997, with more local French councils taking part in this new public body than in the CRFG created in 1973. Finally in 2012 the {{lang|fr|Projet d’agglomération franco-valdo-genevois}} was renamed {{lang|fr|[[Grand Genève]]}} ('Greater Geneva'), and the following year it was transformed into a {{Interlanguage link|Local Grouping of Transnational Cooperation|fr|Groupement local de coopération transfrontalière}} ({{lang|fr|GLCT}}), a public entity under Swiss law, which now serves as the executive body of the {{lang|fr|Grand Genève}}.

The {{lang|fr|Grand Genève}} GLCT is made up of the [[Canton of Geneva]], the [[Nyon District]] (in the canton of Vaud), and the {{Interlanguage link|Pôle métropolitain du Genevois français|fr|italic=yes}} (literally 'Metropolitan hub of the French Genevan territory'), this last one a federation of eight French [[Communes of France#Intercommunality|intercommunal]] councils in [[Ain]] and [[Haute-Savoie]]. The {{lang|fr|Grand Genève}} GLCT extends over {{convert|1996|km2|sqmi|0|abbr=on}}<ref name=GLCT_land_area /> and had a population of 1,046,168 in Jan. 2021 (Swiss estimates and French census), 58.3% of them living on Swiss territory, and 41.7% on French territory.<ref name=GLCT_pop />