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The canton of Basel-Stadt shares its political structure and administration with the municipality of Basel. Basel-Stadt is a half-canton. This means that the canton only sends one representative to the Council of States. The capital of the canton Basel-Stadt is the city of Basel. The present constitution of the canton dates from 1889.
The Swiss Constitution of 1844 continued to recognize "Basel" as one of twenty-two "sovereign cantons" of Switzerland, enumerated as Basel (Stadt und Land). In this sense, as a sovereign member of the Swiss Confederacy, the canton of Basel continued to exist until 1999, when the revised constitution recognised the two former half-cantons as ...
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This is an alphabetical list of the 2,131 municipalities of Switzerland, updated (as of January 2024 ... Basel-Stadt Riemenstalden: Schwyz Rifferswil: Zürich Riggisberg:
Basel (/ ˈ b ɑː z əl /, BAH-zəl; German: ⓘ), also known as Basle, [note 1] is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the River Rhine (at the transition from the High to the Upper Rhine). [4] Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zurich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. [5]
Freie Strasse, Basel (Switzerland) Freie Strasse is the oldest shopping street in the city of Basel, Switzerland. It was already used as a transportation and trade route towards the west during the time of the Roman settlement in Augusta Raurica around 44 BC. Today, it is considered one of the most important shopping streets in the city. [1] [2]
Basel is the capital of Switzerland's pharmaceutical industry, hosting Novartis, Roche, and many other players. It is one of the world's most important centres for the life sciences industry. [137] Switzerland had the second-highest global rating in the Index of Economic Freedom 2023, [138] while also providing significant public services. [139]
The BIS-Tower, more commonly known as the BIS-high rise, is a 69.5-meter-high administrative tower and headquarters of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. Designed by architect Martin Burckhardt and built between 1972 and 1977, the tower is a landmark of the Central Railway Station and the city of Basel. From the ...