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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Chapters: Amalfi Coast, Italian Riviera, Genoa, Costa Smeralda, La Spezia, Sanremo, Andora, Tramonti, Finale Ligure, Cinque Terre, Imperia, Savona, Ventimiglia, Rapallo, Villa Cimbrone, Conca dei Marini, Porto Venere, Amalfi Cathedral, Ravello, Portofino, Monterosso al Mare, Positano, Lerici, Duchy of Amalfi, Maiori, Albenga, Praiano, Scala, Cervo, Liguria, Grotta dello Smeraldo, Vernazza, Atrani, Riomaggiore, Corniglia, Cilentan Coast, Cetara, Vietri sul Mare, Furore, Minori, Camogli, Tino, Sirenuse, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Amalfi-Cava de' Tirreni, Colletta di Castelbianco, Manarola, Limoncello, Corso Italia, Deiva Marina, Costa Verde, Monti Lattari, Sorrento Peninsula, Palmaria, Tinetto, Boccadasse, San Terenzo, Amalfi Drive, Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, San Nicolo dell'isola di Sestri Levante, Volastra, Tellaro, Chiunzi, Amalfian Laws, Paraggi. Excerpt: Genoa ( , Italian: ·), pronounced , in Genoese and Ligurian: Zena, pronounced , in Latin and, archaically, in English: ) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. The city has a population of about 608, 000, the urban zone has a population of 718, 896 and polycentric metropolitan area has a population of 859, 000. It is also called la Superba ("the Superb one") due to its glorious past. Part of the old city of Genoa was inscribed on the World Heritage List (UNESCO) in 2006 (see below). The city's rich art, music, gastronomy, architecture and history, made it 2004's EU Capital of Culture. Genoa, which forms the southern corner of the Milan-Turin-Genoa industrial triangle of north-west Italy, is one of the country's major economic centres. With a GDP of 15.08 billion Euros, or 1.3% of the national total, the city ranked fifth in Italy for economic strength in the year 2000: after Rome (6.45%), Milan (4.74%), Turin (2.19%) and Naples (1.51%), and ahead of Bologna (1.01%), Florence (1.00%) and Palermo (0.94%). The Bank of Saint George, one of the oldest in the world, was founded here in 1407 and played an important role in the city's prosperity from the middle of the 15th century. Today a number of leading Italian companies are based in the city, including Fincantieri, Ansaldo Energia, Ansaldo STS and Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone. Genua was a city of the ancient Ligurians. Its name may derive from the Latin word meaning "knee" (genu, plural, genua), i.e. "angle", from its geographical position at the centre of the Ligurian coastal arch, thus akin to the name of Geneva. Or it could derive from the Celtic root genu-, genawa (pl. genowe), meaning "mouth", i.e., estuary. The flag of Genoa is simply a St George's Cross, a red cross on a lime white field, identical to the Flag of England and incorporated into the Flag of Georgia. Portrayal of Genoa in 1493, woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle.Genoa's h