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Sion (French: [sjɔ̃] ⓘ) [3] is a Swiss town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Valais and of the district of Sion. As of December 2020 it had a population of 34,978 [4] (known as Sédunois (es)). [5] On 17 January 1968, the former municipality of Bramois merged into the municipality of Sion. [6]
Sion has a population (as of December 2020 [update]) of 48,447. [ 1 ] Most of the population (as of 2000 [update]) speaks French (31,488 or 85.1%) as their first language, German is the second most common (1,878 or 5.1%) and Portuguese is the third (1,029 or 2.8%). There are 915 people who speak Italian and 20 people who speak Romansh.
Population density in Switzerland, by district. Switzerland has 9 million inhabitants, as of June 2024. [4] Its population quadrupled over the period 1800 to 1990 (average doubling time 95 years).
The 26 cantons of Switzerland[ 1 ] are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the Waldstätte. Two important periods in the development of the Old Swiss Confederacy are summarized by the terms Acht Orte ('Eight Cantons'; from ...
The plateau occupies about one third of the land area of Switzerland, and about two thirds of the population live in this area. The population density on the plateau averages about 450 people per km 2 (1,166 per square mile). [6] In the regions around Lake Geneva, Lake Zurich and other cities, the population density exceeds 1000 people per km 2 ...
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). Since 2014, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) uses a new algorithm (called German: Statistische Städte 2012, or French: Villes statistiques ...
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Population density is the number of people per unit of area, usually transcribed as "per square kilometer" or square mile, and which may include or exclude, for example, areas of water or glaciers. Commonly this is calculated for a county, city, country, another territory or the entire world. The world's population is around 8,000,000,000 [3 ...