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Switzerland
Swiss Confederation
Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft (German)
Confédération Suisse (French)
Confederazione Svizzera (Italian)
Confederaziun Svizra (Romansch)
Political Status: Neutral confederation since 1291; equivalent of federal system embodied in constitution of May 29, 1874; current constitution, revising and reforming that of 1874, adopted April 18, 1999, effective January 1, 2000.
Area: 15,943 sq. mi. (41,293 sq. km).
Population: 8,516,000 (2020E—World Bank); 8,348,737 (2020E—U.S. Census). (After having conducted a standard full census every ten years since 1850, Switzerland in 2010 adopted a new system under which a census is completed each year using advanced methods of data collection and evaluation that rely on cantonal and communal population registers as well as a survey of approximately 5 percent of the population annually.)
Major Urban Centers (metropolitan area, 2018E—UN): BERN (122,000), Zürich (342,000), Geneva (184,000), Basel (165,000).
Official Languages: German, ...