Meyrin

Meyrin is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland. It was a small agricultural village until the 1950s, when construction of CERN began just to the north, and the main site of the European particle physics organisation is still located there. It is now a commuter town dominated by apartment high-rises, many of whose residents work at CERN or in central Geneva, and part of Geneva International Airport lies within its borders. The municipality covers 9.94 square kilometres, of which about 59 percent is settled land, 36 percent agricultural and 4 percent forest. Its population was 26,129 in December 2020, and in 2008 about 41.5 percent of residents were foreign nationals; French is the most common language. The settlement is first mentioned in 1153 as Mairin. Notable natives include Louis Rendu, a bishop of Annecy and scientist, and the lawyer and politician Emma Kammacher.