In which city will you find the headquarters of the United Nations?

The United Nations is headquartered in New York City, in a complex designed by a board of architects led by Wallace Harrison, and built by the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz. The complex has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1952.

It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, on 17 to 18 acres (6.9 to 7.3 ha) of grounds overlooking the East River. Its borders are First Avenue on the west, East 42nd Street to the south, East 48th Street on the north and the East River to the east. The term "Turtle Bay" is occasionally used as a metonym for the UN headquarters or for the United Nations as a whole.

The headquarters holds the seats of the principal organs of the UN, including the General Assembly and the Security Council, but excluding the International Court of Justice, which is seated in the Hague. The United Nations has three additional, subsidiary, regional headquarters, or headquarters districts. These were opened in Geneva (Switzerland) in 1946, Vienna (Austria) in 1980, and Nairobi (Kenya) in 1996. These adjunct offices help represent UN interests, facilitate diplomatic activities, and enjoy certain extraterritorial privileges, but do not contain the seats of major organs.

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Alan Straff

This was such an easy question I thought it had been set by either Wilkes, White, brian l or zain 😝

Barb Schmidt

this and who and whatever else, no longer, is ever, good groups

Char

Char, ok that's why I thought they were abroad they are just not the main headquarters..

Char

Stephen Liebman, non of your beeswax why I missed it. Worry about your answers not mine. Your rudeness is not acceptable

Char

I thought US but then thought it's headquarters could be abroad..oh well

Larry Hughes

Thor Johnson, rather see it moved to North Korea!

Louella Wilson

Stephen Liebman, why are you so surprised? At least the other options are major cities which are home to numerous international organisations.

M Renz

Been to UN on class trip many years ago. Relative was an interpreter in the UN in Geneva for many years. Now retired.

Howard Groopman

My wife and I were taking the UN tour back in the mid-70s with my uncle, a native New Yorker and a budding comedian in his old age. The guide asked where people were from, and he shouted out "Montana!" Some people on the tour said, "Oh, we're from Montana, too, what city are you from?"