Has four national languages, and roughly 6 per cent of Europe's fresh water is stored in its glaciers and lakes.
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Switzerland
Swiss Confederation ยท Suisse
Europe
ยท Western Europe
0Population
41.28Kkmยฒ of land
$81.99KGDP / person
BernCapital
- ISO codes
- CH ยท CHE
- Density
- 208 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- French, Swiss German, Italian, Romansh
- Currency
- Swiss franc (CHF)
- Dial code
- +41
- Internet domain
- .ch
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 46.7190ยฐ N, 7.4640ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Swiss
- UN region
- Western Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $703.08B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Switzerland stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
100th
of 242 ยท 0.11% of world population
Land area
135th
of 242 ยท 0.03% of world land
GDP per person
11th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
64th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Switzerland
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 8,574,832 people, the 100th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.11 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 41,284 kmยฒ, making it the 135th largest country here - about 4.5 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 208 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Bern, at 46.92ยฐ N, 7.47ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 275,329.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: Austria, France, Italy, Liechtenstein and Germany.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Zurich.
The currency is the Swiss franc (CHF, symbol Fr.).
Has 4 official languages: French, Swiss German, Italian and Romansh.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Zurich
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UTC+02:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Geneva
Genรจve
46.2100ยฐ N, 6.1400ยฐ E
1.24M
2
Zรผrich
Zรผrich
47.3819ยฐ N, 8.5481ยฐ E
1.11M
3
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Bern
Bern
46.9167ยฐ N, 7.4670ยฐ E
275.33K
๐ Peaks
Matterhorn
4,478 m
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Switzerland.