These are lists of cities in Switzerland. Municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants are considered to be towns (in German: Städte, in French: villes, in Italian: città). Largest cities in Switzerland are : Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Lausanne, Bern,Winterthur,Lucerne, St. Gallen, Lugano, Biel/Bienne, Thun, Köniz, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Schaffhausen, Fribourg, Vernier, Chur, Neuchâtel, Uster and Sion.
Switzerland has four official languages, traditionally spoken in different regions of the country. Here is a list with the names of all Swiss villages and towns with abbreviation of the canton. Only very few villages and towns along the boarder between language regions are truly bilingual. Rumantsch speaking people in Switzerland are generally perfectly bilingual (Rumantsch/German).
Switzerland had a population of 8.02 million as of 2012. Its population quadrupled over the period 1800 to 1990 (average doubling time 95 years).More than 75% of the population live in the central plain, which stretches between the Alps and the Jura Mountains and from Geneva in the southwest to the Rhine River and Lake Constance in the northeast. Foreigners with permanent residency (which does not include temporary foreign workers) make up about 23% of the population.
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