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The canton of Bern is mainly drained by the river Aare and its tributaries. The area of the canton is commonly divided into six regions. [22] The most populated area is the Bernese Mittelland on the plateau north of the Alps, with the capital city of Bern. The northmost part of the canton is the Bernese Jura bordering the Canton of Jura.
The canton of Jura acceded as the 23rd canton with its secession from Bern in 1979. [4] The official number of cantons was increased to 26 in the federal constitution of 1999 , which designated former half-cantons as cantons.
The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000. [6] Bern is also the capital of the canton of Bern, the second-most populous of Switzerland's cantons. The official language is German, [note 4] but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect, Bernese German.
• Density: 1,300/km 2 ... is a Swiss town and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern. ... The population was made up ...
Bern District (German: Amtsbezirk Bern, French: District de Berne, Italian: Distretto di Berna) is a constitutional district and used to be an administrative district in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It had an area of 233 km 2 (90 sq mi) and a population of 237,919 (in January 2005).
Emmental District in the Canton of Bern was created on 1 January 2010. [1] It is part of the Emmental-Oberaargau administrative region. It contains 40 municipalities with an area of 690.45 km 2 (266.58 sq mi) and a population (as of 31 December 2020) of 97,666. [2]
According to the canton's constitution, one of the seven members of the Executive Council of Bern has to be a French-speaking citizen of this area. Of the 160 seats in the Grand Council of Bern, 12 seats are reserved for the Bernese Jura and an additional three seats are guaranteed for the French-speaking population of the bilingual district of Biel/Bienne.
Büren District is a constitutional district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, with its capital at Büren an der Aare. It contains 14 municipalities in an area of 88 km²: From 1 January 2010, the district lost its administrative power while being replaced by the Seeland (administrative district), whose administrative centre is Aarberg ...