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Switzerland
Location marker · geographic overview
47° N / 8° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Bern
- Population
- 9,005,582 2024
- Area
- 41,284 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- French, Swiss German, Italian, Romansh
- Currency
- Swiss franc (CHF)
- Geography
- Landlocked
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Switzerland
Switzerland (German: Schweiz, French: Suisse, Italian: Svizzera, Romansch: Svizra) is a mountainous country known globally for its neutrality, democracy, and almost-legendary affluence: Switzerland has one of the highest standards of living in the world, and prices to match.
Food & everyday culture
While Switzerland has had long culinary exchange with the cuisine of its neighbours, it has several iconic dishes of its own.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-31. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
A few more connections
- National anthem source-listed
- Swiss Psalm Wikidata record ↗
Cited reference ↗
Wikidata, CC0 1.0. Source-matched, not independently certified. Observation year unavailable; retrieved 2026-09-27.
A little more to discover +
- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Western Europe
- Calling code
- +41
- Internet domain
- .ch
- Land border codes
- AUT, FRA, ITA, LIE, DEU
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .ch. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.