Country: Switzerland



Population: 7,782,900
Capital: Bern
Currency: Swiss Franc (CHF )
Top level domain: .ch
Int. Phone access: 41
ISO2 code: CH
ISO3 code: CHE
IOC code: SUI


Switzerland



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Switzerland

Languages:
German (official), French (official), Italian (official), Serbo- Croatian, Albanian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, Romansch (official)

Religions:
Roman Catholic 41.8%, Protestant 35.3%, Muslim 4.3%, Orthodox 1.8%, other Christian 0.4%, other 1%, unspecified 4.3%, none 11.1% (2000 census)

United Nations member since: 2002-09-10

Olympic achievements

Olympic Summer Games: 26 times.   Medals: gold  45   silver  70   bronse   66
Olympic Winter Games: 21 times.   Medals: gold  44   silver  37   bronse   46

Provinces / Regions


Aargau, Ausser-Rhoden, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bern, Fribourg, Geneve, Glarus, Graubunden, Inner-Rhoden, Luzern, Neuchatel, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Sankt Gallen, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, Thurgau, Ticino, Uri, Valais, Vaud, Zug, Zurich, Jura,

Major Cities


Zürich, Geneve, Basel, Bern, Lausanne,