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The official number of cantons was increased to 26 in the federal constitution of 1999, which designated former half-cantons as cantons. The areas of the cantons vary from 37 km 2 (15 sq. mi.) ( Basel-Stadt ) to 7,105 km 2 (2743 sq. mi.) ( Grisons ); the populations (as of 2018) range from 16,000 ( Appenzell Innerrhoden ) to 1.5 million ...
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.
Switzerland has a relatively high number of small municipalities, with a population of 1,000 or less, especially in rural areas. Because of the increasing difficulty in providing professional government services and in finding volunteers for political offices in small municipalities, the cantons tend to encourage voluntary mergers of ...
Population of towns (2022) Below is a list of towns and cities in Switzerland.Until 2014 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants were considered to be towns (German: Stadt/Städte, French: ville(s), Italian: città).
Rank Canton GRDP per capita (in CHF) 1 Basel-Stadt: 209,782 2 Zug: 192,958 3 Geneva: 119,644 4 Neuchâtel: 106,165 5 Zürich: 104,620 6 Ticino: 102,190 7
Cantons. Appenzell Ausserrhoden (AR) Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI) ... This is an alphabetical list of the 2,131 municipalities of Switzerland, updated (as of January 2024
The Swiss Federal Constitution of 1999 abandoned the use of the term "half-canton" as an official designation, so that the official number of cantons became 26 - the former half-cantons being now referred to as "cantons with half a cantonal vote" officially, even though they are still commonly referred to as "half-cantons".
They are also used with the prefix "CH-" as ISO 3166-2 codes of Switzerland, e.g. CH-SZ for the canton of Schwyz. SFSO also uses a numerical code ordering the cantons by their constitutional order (1 to 26). The FIPS 10-4 region codes of Switzerland were used by the United States government. This standard was withdrawn in 2008.