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Revision as of 11:41, 24 May 2002 by MadSurgeon (talk | contribs) (+ some outside links)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Swiss Confederation, or Switzerland, is a small country in the center of Europe, with neighbors Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. Languages spoken are German, French, Italian and Romanche. The German spoken there is more accurately called Swiss German, because it differs from German noticeably. In its various languages, Switzerland is called Schweiz (German), Suisse (French), Svizzera (Italian) and Svizra (Romanche). It is also known as Confoederatio Helvetica (CH), Latin for Swiss Confederation.
The capital is Berne.
Other important cities include Zürich, Geneva, Basel, and Lausanne.
The Swiss are famous for their banks, their chocolate, their watches and their cheese.
The Swiss Conferderation consists of 26 cantons:
- Aargau
- Appenzell A.Rh.
- Appenzell I.Rh.
- Basel-Landschaft
- Basel-Stadt
- Bern
- Freiburg
- Genf
- Glarus
- Graubünden
- Jura
- Luzern
- Neuenburg
- Nidwalden
- Obwalden
- Schaffhausen
- Schwyz
- Solothurn
- St. Gallen
- Tessin
- Thurgau
- Uri
- Waadt
- Wallis
- Zug
- Zürich
From the CIA World Factbook 2000. Not Wikified.
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