Also known as
  • die Schweiz,
  • la Suisse,
  • Svizzera,
  • Svizra
Switzerland (English pronunciation: ; , , , ), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a landlocked alpine country of roughly 7.6 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km². Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called cantons. Berne is the seat of the federal authorities, while the country's economic centres are its three global cities, Geneva, Basel and especially Zürich. Switzerland... full article at wikipedia
Date founded
  • 1291
Date dissolved
Population
number
date
  • 7,554,661
  • Jul 2007
GDP (nominal)
GDP (nominal per capita)
CO2 emissions - total
CO2 emissions - residential
CO2 emissions - commercial
CO2 emissions - industrial
CO2 emissions - mobile
Automobiles per capita
Places exported to
Places imported from
imported from
currency
amount
date
  • 8,700,000,000.0
  • 2008
Major exports
Major imports