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Google Zurich is a main hub for its operations in Europe with about 5000 employees. In March 2023, workers at the centre staged a solidarity movement in coordination with the IT workers' union Syndicom to reduce lay-offs and to oppose salary cuts. According to a spokesperson for the company, Google Zurich would remain a major employer despite ...
Zurich joined the Swiss confederation (which at that point was a loose confederation of de facto independent states) as the fifth member in 1351. Zurich was expelled from the confederation in 1440 due to a war with the other member states over the territory of Toggenburg (the Old Zurich War). Zurich was defeated in 1446, and re-admitted to the ...
The canton of Zurich [b] is an administrative unit of Switzerland, situated in the northeastern part of the country. With a population of 1,553,423 (as of 31 December 2020), it is the most populous canton of Switzerland. [ 3 ]
Population of towns (2022) 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).
Its sponsor is the Stiftung Greater Zurich Area Standortmarketing, a public-private partnership that was established in November 1998. Since that time, its membership has grown to include the cantons of Glarus , Grisons , Schaffhausen , Schwyz , Solothurn , Ticino , Uri , Zug and Zürich , the cities of Zürich and Winterthur , several ...
The municipality of Zurich is divided into twelve districts (known as Kreis in German), numbered 1 to 12, each one of which may contain anywhere between 1 and 4 neighborhoods. There are a total of 34 neighborhoods.
The Zoo Zurich is a zoo located in Zurich, Switzerland. It is considered one of the best zoos in Europe [ citation needed ] . Opened in 1929, it is the third oldest zoo in Switzerland (after Basel and Arth-Goldau ) and it accumulated a collection of 2,200 specimens of 300 species by its seventy-fifth year.
Lake Zurich (German: Zürichsee; Alemannic German: Zürisee) [1] is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zurich.Depending on the context, Lake Zurich or Zürichsee can be used to describe the lake as a whole, or just that part of the lake downstream of the Hurden peninsula and Seedamm causeway (between Pfäffikon and Rapperswil).