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Border map Soldiers shaking hands on the Alsatian part of the France–Switzerland border in the midst of World War I The border follows the Upper Rhine for about 1.5 km (0.93 mi). It then runs south of EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg and then towards the southwest, separating the villages of Schönenbuch (Switzerland), Neuwiller (France ...
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 ...
The Swiss Plateau extends from Lake Geneva on the French border across central Switzerland to Lake Constance on the German and Austrian borders. In the north and northwest, the Swiss Plateau is sharply delimited geographically and geologically by the Jura Mountains. In the south, there is no clear border with the Alps.
Switzerland, [e] officially the Swiss Confederation, [f] is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. [ g ] [ 13 ] It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
Switzerland's accession to the Schengen Area in December 2008 removed all passport checks between the two countries. However, Swiss and Austrian customs officials retain a presence at well-frequented border crossings as they still have the authority to stop travellers to carry out customs checks, as Switzerland is outside the EU Customs Union.
Since then, the international borders of Switzerland have been undisputed and, except for minor corrections, unchanged (the internal borders of the cantons of Switzerland have been subject to revision, mostly in the context of the Jura question). Further Swiss-Italian treaties regarding the course of the border date to 1873/4, [6] 1936/7 [7 ...
Business Insider's author spent six days in Basel, Switzerland, discovering art and nearby French towns and embarking on epic hikes. A Swiss town borders 2 other countries, making it the ideal ...
The border is a product of the Napoleonic period, established with the provisional constitution of the Helvetic Republic of 15 January 1798, restored in 1815. While this border existed as a border of Switzerland from 1815, there was only a unified Italian state to allow the existence of a "Swiss-Italian border" with the formation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, it previously comprised the ...