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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).
List of cities in Switzerland; List of municipalities of Switzerland; References This page was last edited on 10 April 2022, at 19:58 (UTC). Text ...
Polycentricity and metropolitan governance in Switzerland, Vienna University of Economics and Business; Metropolitan governance and the "democratic deficit", Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
The population of Switzerland is heavily urbanised. In 2009, 74% of the 7,785,800 inhabitants lived in urban areas. The distribution of population is shaped by the topography of the country, the plateau being the most populous area and including the major cities of Switzerland.
In 2023, Geneva was ranked as the world's tenth most important financial centre by the Global Financial Centres Index, second in Europe behind London. [22] In 2019, Geneva was ranked among the ten most liveable cities in the world by Mercer , alongside Zürich and Basel, [ 23 ] as well as the thirteenth most expensive city in the world. [ 24 ]
Switzerland is the birthplace of the Red Cross and hosts the headquarters or offices of most major international institutions, including the WTO, the WHO, the ILO, FIFA, the WEF, and the UN. It is a founding member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) but not part of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area , or the eurozone ...
Part of the border will be redrawn because of the glacial melt, in another sign of how much humans are changing the world by burning planet-heating fossil fuels. Italy and Switzerland have agreed ...
The population density is 380 people per square kilometre. All the Swiss cities with more than 50 000 inhabitants except Basel and Lugano are situated in the plateau, especially Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Zürich. The agglomerations of these cities are the most populous areas.