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Zermatt (German: [tsɛʁˈmat] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German:) is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a year-round population of about 5,800 and is classified as a town by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
MeteoSwiss, [a] officially the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, [b] is an office of the federal administration of Switzerland. It employs 290 people at locations in Zurich , Zurich Airport , Geneva , Locarno and Payerne .
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It shares a ski area with Zermatt through the Plateau Rosa glacier (3,500 m [11,500 ft]). The ski season in Breuil-Cervinia lasts not only 6 months in winter but also in summer on the Plateau Rosa glacier. [13] The Theodul Pass lies on the territory of Breuil-Cervinia. The village is divided by the Marmore creek.
Switzerland, [e] officially the Swiss Confederation, [f] is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. [g] [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 station forms part of the Zermatt ski area. From 1958 to 2007 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] there was a cable car from Gornergrat over the Hohtälli (3,275 m (10,745 ft)) to the Stockhorn (3,405 m (11,171 ft)) which, until the construction of the Klein Matterhorn cable car, was the highest mountain station in Zermatt.
A large debris fan, deposited by a rockslide in the 1990s, can be seen above the village of Randa in the Matter valley. The Weisshorn above the Matter valley (background).. The Matter Valley (German: Mattertal, or sometimes Nikolaital) is located in southwestern Switzerland, south of the Rhone valley in the canton of Valais.