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The border crossing at Chiasso View of Grenzgipfel, the highest point of the Swiss border, just off Dufourspitze, the highest point on Swiss soil.. The border between the modern states of Switzerland and Italy extends for 744 kilometres (462 mi), [1] from the French-Swiss-Italian tripoint at Mont Dolent in the west to the Austrian-Swiss-Italian tripoint near Piz Lad in the east.
The Matterhorn (German: [ˈmatɐˌhɔʁn] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German: [ˈmatərˌhɔrn]; Italian: Cervino [tʃerˈviːno]; French: Cervin; Romansh: Mont(e) Cervin(u) [note 3] or Matterhorn [mɐˈtɛrorn]) is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Italy and Switzerland. It is a large, near-symmetric pyramidal ...
Chiasso (Italian pronunciation:; Lombard: Ciass) is a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.. As the southernmost of Switzerland's municipalities, Chiasso is on the border with Italy, in front of Ponte Chiasso (a frazione of Como, Italy).
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).
Border towns Bordering countries Geneva Switzerland / France: Mulhouse France / Germany: Saarbrücken Germany / France: Saint Louis/Weil am Rhein/Basel France / Germany / Switzerland: Strasbourg/Kehl France / Germany: Como/Chiasso Italy / Switzerland: Gorizia/Nova Gorica Italy / Slovenia: Konstanz/Kreuzlingen Germany / Switzerland: Ainaži
Italy–Switzerland border crossings (21 P) L. Lugano Prealps (20 P) M. Matterhorn (1 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Italy–Switzerland border" The following 177 pages ...
Business Insider's author spent six days in Basel, Switzerland, discovering art and nearby French towns and embarking on epic hikes. A Swiss town borders 2 other countries, making it the ideal ...
In German-speaking Switzerland, Ticino is nicknamed Sonnenstube (sun porch), owing to the more than 2,300 sunshine hours the canton receives every year, compared to 1,700 for Zurich. [22] The canton can experience particularly heavy storms and rainfalls in summer. It is the region of Switzerland with the highest level of lightning discharge. [23]