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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. Each canton has its own constitution, legislature, government and courts. [2]
This is a list of NUTS2 statistical regions of Switzerland by Human Development Index as of 2024 with data for the year 2022. In the same year the Zurich Region had the highest HDI score out of 1790 sub-national regions of the world. [1]
The administrative subdivisions of Switzerland are its cantons, districts and municipalities. This category contains articles about other regions of Switzerland, whether based on physical geography, culture, or history.
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 .
The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics is a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of Switzerland for statistical purposes. [1] As a member of EFTA Switzerland is included in the NUTS standard, although the standard is developed and regulated by the European Union, [2] an organization that Switzerland does not belong to.
For administrative purposes Switzerland is divided into cantons, sometimes districts and municipalities. There are also various non-administrative regions based on physical geography, culture or history.
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 .
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.