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The 26 cantons of Switzerland [note 1] are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. ... The two-letter abbreviations for Swiss cantons are widely used, ...
The two-letter abbreviations are widely used, e.g. on car license plates and as disambiguator for localities on postal addresses if two localities in different cantons have the same name. They are also used with the prefix "CH-" as ISO 3166-2 codes of Switzerland, e.g. CH-SZ for the canton of Schwyz.
The abbreviation is derived from Latin name for Switzerland, Confoederatio Helvetica ("Helvetic Confederation"). Currently for Switzerland, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 26 cantons. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is CH, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Switzerland.
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the federal state of Switzerland. Each canton was a fully sovereign state [1] with its own borders, army and currency from the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848. Each canton has its own constitution, legislature, government and courts. [2]
In Switzerland, the postal codes have four digits. As with the postcode system introduced in Germany in 1993, a municipality can receive several postcodes. A locality (settlement) having its own postal code does not mean that it is an independent political municipality, but only that it is an official locality.
A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. [1] In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with other administrative divisions such as counties, departments, or provinces. Internationally, the most politically important cantons are the Swiss cantons.
Cantonal abbreviations: see Data codes for Switzerland#Cantons; Lookup types: Name: Name of the canton in English; Name.de: Name in German; Name.fr: Name in French; Name.it: Name in Italian; Article: Article about the canton linked; FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard 10-4; Website: official website of the canton
The capital of the canton is Aarau, which is located on its western border, on the Aare. The canton borders Germany (Baden-Württemberg) to the north, the Rhine forming the border. To the west lie the Swiss cantons of Basel-Landschaft, Solothurn and Bern; the canton of Lucerne lies south, and Zürich and Zug to the east. Its total area is 1,404 ...