- Switzerland (Swiss), officially Swiss Confederacy (in German, Schweiz; in Italian, Svizzera), country of central Europe situated in the Occidental Alps and enclosed enters France on the West and the North, Germany in the North, Austria and Liechtenstein in the East and Italy in the South. Switzerland has a surface of 41 285 km2. The country counts twenty cantons and six half-cantons; the federal capital is Bern and its most big city, Zurich.
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