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Zalando SE is a publicly traded German online retailer which is active across Europe and specializes in shoes, fashion and beauty products. The company was founded in 2008 by David Schneider and Robert Gentz and has more than 51 million active users in 25 European markets. Zalando is active in a variety of business fields – from multi-brand ...
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). Since 2014, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) uses a new algorithm (called German: Statistische Städte 2012, or French: Villes statistiques ...
Italian 8.2%. Romansh 0.5%. The four national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian, and Romansh. [ 3 ] German, French, and Italian maintain equal status as official languages at the national level within the Federal Administration of the Swiss Confederation, while Romansh is used in dealings with people who speak it. [ 4 ]
While winter sports are enjoyed throughout the country, football and ice hockey remain the most popular sports. [3] Major sporting events in Switzerland include the Olympic Games, which were held two times in St. Moritz in Winter 1928 and Winter 1948, and, the 1954 FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Euro 2008 in Switzerland and Austria.
More than 75% of the population live in the central plain, which stretches between the Alps and the Jura Mountains and from Geneva in the southwest to the High Rhine and Lake Constance in the northeast. As of 2023, 40% of the population has a migrant background and 31% are foreign residents.
Bern (Swiss Standard German: [bɛrn] ⓘ), or Berne (French: [bɛʁn] ⓘ), [ note 1 ] is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to as the " federal city ". [ note 2 ][ 3 ] With a population of about 133,000 (as of 2022), Bern is the fifth-most populous city in Switzerland, behind Zürich, Geneva, Basel and Lausanne. [ 4 ]
Aerial imagery of Zug. Zug has an area (as of the 2004 survey) of 21.63 km 2 (8.35 sq mi). [ 7 ] Of this area, about 33.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 37.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 26.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and 2.5% is unproductive land.
Zurich (German: Zürich; Alemannic German: Züri) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, [ 5 ] at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. As of January 2023, the municipality had 443,037 inhabitants, [ 6 ] the urban area 1.315 million (2009), [ 7 ] and the Zurich ...