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The official Swiss national map of 1938 did mark it, at , but maps made since the 1960s have avoided showing the border in the interior of the lake to reflect the lack of an official agreement The Upper Lake Constance separates the German Bodenseekreis ( Baden-Württemberg ) and Lindau district ( Bavaria ) from the Swiss cantons of Thurgau and ...
Much of the northern border with Germany follows the Rhine, though the Rhine enters Switzerland near Schaffhausen. The eastern border with Germany and a portion of Austria is drawn through Lake Constance (German: Bodensee). A portion of the southwest border with France is drawn through Lake Geneva. Switzerland is divided into 26 sovereign cantons.
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Germany–Switzerland border crossings (42 P) Pages in category "Germany–Switzerland border" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The lake is situated where Germany, Switzerland, and Austria meet. Its shorelines lie in the German states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria; the Swiss cantons of St. Gallen, Thurgau, and Schaffhausen; and the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. The actual locations of the country borders within the lake are disputed.
For most of its length, the Seerhein forms the border between Germany and Switzerland. The exception is the old city center of Konstanz, on the Swiss side of the river. The Seerhein emerged in the last thousands of years, when erosion caused the lake level to be lowered by about 10 meters.
Germany shares its more than 3,700-km-long (2,300 miles) land border with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland.
Map showing the Untersee.To the East, the Seerhein and parts of the Obersee are visible. Yellow: German state of Baden-Württemberg, green: Swiss canton of Thurgau, red: Swiss Canton of Schaffhausen, red line: Germany–Switzerland border Map of Untersee with the different parts of the lake Extinct Hegau volcanoes Hohentwiel (front) and Hohenstoffeln (back) and Zeller See The Island of ...