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The canton of Bern, or Berne (German: Kanton Bern; French: ... Of the population in the canton, 292,559 or about 30.6% were born in Bern and lived there in 2000 ...
The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000. [6] Bern is also the capital of the canton of Bern, the second-most populous of Switzerland's cantons. The official language is German, [note 4] but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect, Bernese German.
Bern-Mittelland District in the canton of Bern was created on 1 January 2010. [1] It is part of the Bern-Mittelland administrative region, and is the only district in the region. It contains 74 municipalities with an area of 946.30 km 2 (365.37 sq mi) and a population (as of 2020 [update] ) of 418,191.
The village Lauterbrunnen has a population (as of December 2020) of 2,301. [14] As of 2010, 22.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. [15] Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has shrunk by 8.9%. Migration accounted for 6.5 percentage points of the decrease, while births and deaths accounted for 3.1. [16]
There are 335 municipalities in the canton of Bern, Switzerland (as of January 2024). [1] This article is part of a series on the: Politics of Switzerland.
The canton of Jura acceded as the 23rd canton with its secession from Bern in 1979. [4] The official number of cantons was increased to 26 in the federal constitution of 1999 , which designated former half-cantons as cantons.
Emmental District in the Canton of Bern was created on 1 January 2010. [1] It is part of the Emmental-Oberaargau administrative region. It contains 40 municipalities with an area of 690.45 km 2 (266.58 sq mi) and a population (as of 31 December 2020) of 97,666. [2]
Bern District (German: Amtsbezirk Bern, French: District de Berne, Italian: Distretto di Berna) is a constitutional district and used to be an administrative district in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It had an area of 233 km 2 (90 sq mi) and a population of 237,919 (in January 2005).