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Capital: Bern
Largest city: Zürich
Ports: Basel
Location: Central Europe, east of France, north of Italy
Geographic coordinates:47 00 N, 8 00 E
Area: 41.290 km²
Border countries: Austria 164 km, France 573 km, Italy 740 km, Liechtenstein 41 km, Germany 334 km
Coastline: 0 km
Climate: temperate, but varies with altitude; cold, cloudy, rainy/snowy winters; cool to warm, cloudy, humid summers with occasional showers
Lowest point: Lago Maggiore 195 m
Highest point: Dufourspitze 4,634 m
Population: 7.489.370 (July 2005)
Ethnic groups: Swiss German 65%, Swiss French 18%, Swiss Italian 10%, Swiss Romansch 1%, other 6%
Languages: German (official) 63.7%, French (official) 20.4%, Italian (official) 6.5%, Serbo-Croatian 1.5%, Albanian 1.3%, Portuguese 1.2%, Spanish 1.1%, English 1%, Romanisch 0.5%, other 2.8%. German, French, Italian, and Romanisch are all national languages, but only the first three are official languages
Religions: Roman Catholic 41.8%, Protestant 35.3%, Orthodox 1.8%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 4.3%, other 1%, unspecified 4.3%, none 11.1%
Currency: New Turkish lira (YTL)
Administrative divisions: Aargau, Appenzell Ausser-Rhoden, Appenzell Inner-Rhoden, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bern, Fribourg, Geneve, Glarus, Graubunden, Jura, Luzern, Neuchatel, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Sankt Gallen, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, Thurgau, Ticino, Uri, Valais, Vaud, Zug, Zürich
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