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Switzerland has a relatively high number of small municipalities, with a population of 1,000 or less, especially in rural areas. Because of the increasing difficulty in providing professional government services and in finding volunteers for political offices in small municipalities, the cantons tend to encourage voluntary mergers of ...
The population of Switzerland 1970–2005. Data from Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2005; number of inhabitants in thousands. Population pyramid of Switzerland in 2021 by citizenship. Unlike many other OECD countries, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office does not collect any data on racial identity or ethnic identity. [28]
The following list sorts first-level administrative divisions of countries according to their number of inhabitants. Only administrative units of the highest order are listed. Regions formed for statistical purposes without administrative autonomy, such as the KantÅ region in Japan or the eight federal districts of Russia
A number of further cantons are considering (or have already decided) an abolition of the district level in the future: Schwyz in 2006 voted on its abolition, but voted in favour of keeping the division. Bern in 2006 decided a reduction of its 26 districts to five administrative regions. Vaud decided a reduction from 19 to 10 districts.
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).
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.
By 2005, that number had grown to 3,547. [3] From the 1970s until the 1990s, some Filipinas came to Switzerland as guest workers, primarily in the nursing sectors. [ 4 ] In the 1980s, some women came on 10-month work permits, officially to work as cabaret dancers; in reality, many were forced into prostitution. [ 5 ]
Municipalities of Switzerland Municipality Canton; Aadorf: Thurgau Aarau: Aargau Aarberg: Bern Aarburg: Aargau Aarwangen: Bern Abtwil: Aargau Aclens: Vaud Acquarossa