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The 26 cantons of Switzerland [1] are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the Waldstätte .
This is a list of cantonal legislatures of Switzerland. Each canton has a democratically elected cantonal legislature, as well as elected members of the Federal Assembly. The cantonal legislatures are elected for four years, except in Fribourg, Vaud, Geneva and Jura, which elect their legislatures for five years.
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.
The Cantons of Switzerland are the top tier administrative subdivisions of the country. They were once sovereign states and under Switzerland's federal constitution they retain a higher degree of autonomy than the subdivisions of many other countries.
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
The 22 cantonal coats of arms in the stained glass dome of the Federal Palace of Switzerland (c. 1900) Great Seal of the Confederacy, with the Standesfarben to be worn by the cantonal huissiers (Standesweibel), print published in c. 1830. Each of the 26 modern cantons of Switzerland has an official flag and a coat of arms. The history of ...
Districts of Switzerland are a political subdivision for cantons. In the federally constituted Switzerland , each canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. Therefore, there exists a variety of structures and terminology for the subnational entities between canton and municipality , loosely termed districts .
The Federal Council is the executive of the Swiss federal government, and is included for purposes of comparison. The cantonal executives are collegial bodies, each with 5 or 7 members. They are generally called Regierungsrat (Executive Council) in German-speaking cantons and Conseil d'État (State Council) in French-speaking cantons.