For a list of just the most isolated mountains, see List of most isolated mountains of Switzerland. Along with the lakes , mountains constitute a major natural feature of Switzerland with most of the cantons having summits exceeding 2,000 metres (7,000 ft) and three of them having summits exceeding 4,000 metres (13,000 ft).

There is no national minimum wage in Switzerland. However, some cantons do have a minimum wage that applies in that canton. Some collective agreements and companies also have one for a specific industry or company. Good to know. In 2020 the average monthly salary in Switzerland was CHF 6538. All themes. de fr

Nov 24, 2019 · Zug is a canton with a population of approximately 122’000. It is known as one of the smallest yet richest cantons in Switzerland. The canton is situated between the Prealps and the Swiss Central Plateau. What tourists love to do here is to cruise on Lake Zug, which is Switzerland’s tenth largest lake and lies in Central Switzerland. 10.

The 26 cantons of Switzerland (German: Kanton; French: canton; Italian: cantone; Sursilvan and Surmiran: cantun; Vallader and Puter: Chantun; Sutsilvan: cantùn; Rumantsch Grischun: chantun) are the member states of the Swiss Confederation.The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the Waldstätte.

Television in Switzerland was introduced in 1950, with regular broadcasts commencing in 1953.People who live in Switzerland are required by law to pay a television licence fee, which is used to finance the public radio and television service SRG SSR.Since 1 January 2021, the Licence fee cost in all the linguistic regions of Switzerland is 355 CHF per year or 83.75 CHF quarterly …

The Old Swiss Confederacy or Swiss Confederacy (Modern German: Alte Eidgenossenschaft; historically Eidgenossenschaft, after the Reformation also Corps des Suisses, Confoederatio helvetica "Confederation of the Swiss") was a loose confederation of independent small states (cantons, German Orte or Stände), initially within the Holy Roman Empire.It is the precursor of …

This article contains a sortable table listing all major lakes of Switzerland.The table includes all still water bodies, natural or artificial, that have a surface area of at least 30 hectares (74 acres), regardless of water volume, maximum depth or other metric. These lakes are ranked by area, the table including also the elevation above sea level and maximum depth.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Switzerland ratified the convention on 17 September 1975, making its natural and cultural sites eligible for inclusion on the list.

The two-letter abbreviations are widely used, e.g. on car license plates and as disambiguator for localities on postal addresses if two localities in different cantons have the same name. They are also used with the prefix "CH-" as ISO 3166-2 codes of Switzerland, e.g. CH-SZ for the canton of Schwyz.. SFSO also uses a numerical code ordering the cantons by their constitutional order (1 …

This is a list of the highest mountains of Switzerland. This list only includes summits above 3,600 ... There are over 250 such summits exceeding 3,600 m in Switzerland, all located in the High Alps, in five cantons: Valais, Bern, Graubünden, Uri, and Glarus. All mountain heights and prominences on the list are from the largest-scale maps ...