Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland with a population of 361,129 people (the metropolitan area has a population of 1.68 million). The city is Switzerland's main commercial and cultural centre. It is one of the world's pre-eminent global cities.
Switzerland Facts
Population: 7,604,467. Foreigners account for 20% of the populationSize: 41,277 sq km; slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey
Languages spoken: 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%, Romansch (official) 0.5%, other 2.8% (2000 census)
It has the highest mountains in Europe, together with waterfalls, rivers and lakes set amid green pastures.
Switzerland is also known as "Confoederatio Helvetica", which explains the abbreviation “CH”.
Federal Republic since 1848.
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