Also known as
  • die Schweiz,
  • la Suisse,
  • Svizzera,
  • Svizra
Switzerland (English pronunciation: [ˈswɪtsɚlənd] (help·info); German: Schweiz, Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz French: Suisse, Italian: Svizzera, Romansh: Svizra), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a landlocked alpine country of roughly 7.6 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km². Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called cantons. Berne is the seat of the federal... full article at wikipedia
Date founded
  • 1291
Date dissolved
Population
number
date
  • 7,554,661
  • Jul 2007
GDP (nominal)
GDP (nominal per capita)
CO2 emissions - total
CO2 emissions - residential
CO2 emissions - commercial
CO2 emissions - industrial
CO2 emissions - mobile
Automobiles per capita
Places exported to
Places imported from
imported from
currency
amount
date
  • 8,700,000,000.0
  • 2008
Major exports
Major imports