Switzerland
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- CH
- ISO alpha-3
- CHE
- ISO numeric
- 756
- FIPS 10-4
- SZ
- GeoNames ID
- 2658434
Key facts
- Capital
- Bern
- Area
- 41,290 km²
- Population
- 8,516,543
- Currency
- Franc (CHF)
- Calling code
- +41
- Top-level domain
- .ch
- Official languages
- de-CH,fr-CH,it-CH,rm
Continent
- Name
- Europe
- Code
- EU
- In this dataset
- 54 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 47.00016
- Longitude
- 8.01427
- Min latitude
- 45.82071848599999
- Min longitude
- 5.954809204000128
- Max latitude
- 47.801166077000076
- Max longitude
- 10.466626831000013
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/CH?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 41290,
"capital": "Bern",
"continent_code": "EU",
"currency_code": "CHF",
"iso3_code": "CHE",
"iso_code": "CH",
"name": "Switzerland",
"population": 8516543
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/CH/regions/v1/cities?country=CH/v1/postal-codes?country=CH/v1/timezones?country=CH
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- سويسرا
- Chinese
- 瑞士
- English
- Switzerland
- French
- Suisse
- German
- Schweiz
- Hindi
- स्विटज़रलैंड
- Italian
- Svizzera
- Japanese
- スイス
- Korean
- 스위스
- Portuguese
- Suíça
- Russian
- Швейцария
- Spanish
- Suiza
- Total language variants
- 128
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Europe/Zurich | UTC+01:00 | UTC+02:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ####
- Pattern
^(\d{4})$
First-level administrative regions
- Kanton Zürich
- Canton de Berne
- Canton de Vaud
- Kanton Aargau
- Kanton St. Gallen
- Canton de Genève
- Kanton Luzern
- Cantone Ticino
- Canton du Valais
- Canton de Fribourg
- Kanton Basel-Landschaft
- Kanton Thurgau
- Kanton Solothurn
- Kanton Basel-Stadt
- Kanton Graubünden
- Canton de Neuchâtel
- Kanton Schwyz
- Kanton Zug
- Kanton Schaffhausen
- Canton de Jura
- Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Kanton Glarus
- Kanton Nidwalden
- Kanton Obwalden
24 of 26 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Zürich | 415,367 |
| Geneva | 201,741 |
| Basel | 177,595 |
| Lausanne | 139,111 |
| Bern | 121,631 |
| Winterthur | 111,840 |
| Luzern | 81,691 |
| Sankt Gallen | 75,833 |
| Lugano | 63,185 |
| Biel/Bienne | 55,120 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 13,200
- First-level regions
- 26
- Postal codes
- 4,520
- Name languages
- 128
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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