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It appears on coins of the Swiss franc from 1879, and was inscribed on the Federal Palace in 1902. It was used in the official seal from 1948. The abbreviation CH was first introduced in 1909, as international vehicle registration code, [5] and in 1974, it was assigned as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Switzerland.
.ch is the country code top-level domain for Switzerland in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Made available in 1987, [ 2 ] only two years after .com , it is administered by SWITCH Information Technology Services .
Switzerland, [d] officially the Swiss Confederation, [e] is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. [ f ] [ 13 ] It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
The country code top-level domain for Switzerland on the internet is .ch, the abbreviation of the Latin name, Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation); similarly, the International vehicle registration code for Swiss automobiles is "CH". The Federal Palace of Switzerland bears the inscription Curia Confoederationis Helveticae. [33]
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 This standard was withdrawn in 2008.
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ISO 3166-2:CH is the entry for Switzerland in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
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