Country

Switzerland

Also Known As Swiss Confederation

Western Europe

Switzerland is a landlocked country at the intersection of Central, Western and Southern Europe. Bern serves as its de facto capital, since the constitution names none officially. The Federal Charter of 1291 is considered the founding document of the original confederacy, and the modern federal state took its present form with the 1848 Swiss Federal Constitution. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Capital

Bern 2

Population

9,154,242 2

Population Estimate Year

2026 2

Area (sq km)

41,291 2

Independence or Founding Year

1848 2

1848 is when the Swiss Federal Constitution gave the modern federal state its present form; the original confederacy's own founding document, the Federal Charter, dates to 1291.

Classification

Sovereignty Status

UN Member State 1

Switzerland

Cities

Connections

Associated With

Aletsch Glacier

Bern

Source Bern (Wikipedia)

Canton of Bern

Canton of Bern is a canton of Switzerland.

Source Canton of Bern (Wikipedia)

Canton of Vaud

Canton of Vaud is a canton of Switzerland.

Source Canton of Vaud (Wikipedia)

Canton of Zurich

Canton of Zurich is a canton of Switzerland.

Source Canton of Zurich (Wikipedia)

Lake Constance

Lake Geneva

Lake Geneva lies on Switzerland's border with France.

Source Lake Geneva (Wikipedia)

Lake Lucerne

Lake Maggiore

Lausanne

Lausanne is the capital of the Swiss canton of Vaud, on the shore of Lake Geneva.

Source Wikipedia: Lausanne

Lausanne

Source Wikipedia: Lausanne

Rhine Falls

The Alps

Source Alps (Wikipedia)

Western Europe

Source Western Europe (Wikipedia)

Zurich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland, capital of the canton of Zurich.

Source Wikipedia: Zurich

Zurich

Source Wikipedia: Zurich

Bordered By Water

Lake Geneva

Source Lake Geneva (Wikipedia)

Has Capital

Bern

Source Bern (Wikipedia)

Rivers Through Territory

Rhine River

The Rhine begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

Source Rhine (Wikipedia)

Rhone River

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Same As

Switzerland

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Nationals Include

Edwin Klebs

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Source Edwin Klebs (Wikipedia)Lead [nationality]

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was a German-Swiss microbiologist

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Emil Hassler

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Source Emil Hassler (source article)Lead sentence

Quote, Lead sentence

was a Swiss physician, ethnographer, naturalist and botanist

Emil Theodor Kocher

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Source Emil Theodor Kocher (Wikipedia)Lead sentence

Quote, Lead sentence

was a Swiss physician

Eric Franklin

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Source Wikidata: Eric Franklin

Fritz de Quervain

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Source Fritz de Quervain (Wikipedia)Lead [in-group]

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was a Swiss surgeon born in Sion

Gazi Yaşargil

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Source Gazi Yaşargil (Wikipedia)Opening summary [nationality]

Quote, Opening summary [nationality]

was a Turkish-Swiss medical scientist and neurosurgeon

Hans Martin Sutermeister

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Source Hans Martin Sutermeister (Wikipedia)Lead [nationality]

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was a Swiss physician and medical writer

Hermann Sahli

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Source Hermann Sahli (Wikipedia)Lead sentence [specialist-in]

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was a Swiss internist who was a native of Bern

Jakob Künzler

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was a Swiss doctor who resided in an oriental mission in Urfa

Jaques-Louis Reverdin

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Jaques-Louis Reverdin (28 August 1842 – 9 January 1929) was a Swiss surgeon

Jean-André Venel

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Source Jean-André Venel (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph

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(28 May 1740 – 9 March 1791) was a Swiss surgeon and a pioneer in the field of orthopedics.

Joachim von Zedtwitz

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Source Joachim von Zedtwitz (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph [nationality]

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he settled in Switzerland, where he attained citizenship in 1980

Johann Friedrich Horner

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Source Johann Friedrich Horner (Wikipedia)Biography [nationality]

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Horner was born in Zurich.

Johannes Hegetschweiler

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Quote, Deutsche Biographie page, biography [nationality]

geb. am 14. Decbr. 1789 in Rifferswil (K. Zürich)

Louis Appia

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was a Swiss surgeon with special merit in the area of military medicine

Louis Jurine

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Source Louis Jurine (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph

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was a Swiss medical doctor, surgeon and naturalist

Ludwig Georg Courvoisier

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Naturhistorischen Museums in Basel

Marie Colinet

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Colinet was regarded as the "most famous midwife of Switzerland"

Maurice Edmond Müller

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Source Maurice Edmond Müller (Wikipedia)Lead sentence [specialist-in]

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was a Swiss orthopedic surgeon

Max Askanazy

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Source Max Askanazy (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph [specialist-in]

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was a German-Swiss pathologist

Maximilian Bircher-Benner

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Otto Lanz

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Source Otto Lanz (Wikipedia)Lead sentence

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was a Swiss surgeon.

Paracelsus

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Paul Niehans

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Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein

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Source Rudolf Ulrich Krönlein (Wikipedia)Lead sentence [specialist-in]

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was a Swiss surgeon who was a native of Stein am Rhein

Tadeusz Reichstein

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Théodore Maunoir

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Source Théodore Maunoir (Wikipedia)Lead sentence [nationality]

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was a Swiss surgeon and co-founder

Thomas Erastus

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was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian

Walter Rudolf Hess

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Source Walter Rudolf Hess (Wikipedia)Lead sentence, nationality

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was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize

Jean-Louis Calandrini

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Carl Jung

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Jean Piaget

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Albert Einstein

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Source Albert Einstein, Biographical (Nobel Prize)tier 1

Albert Heim

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Albert Heim (12 April 1849 – 31 August 1937) was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz.

Alfred Werner

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Augusto Gansser

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Augusto Gansser-Biaggi (28 October 1910 – 9 January 2012) was a Swiss geologist who specialised in the geology of the Himalayas.

Bernhard Studer

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Bernhard Studer HFRSE (21 August 1794 – 2 May 1887), was a Swiss geologist who published a two-volume Geologie der Schweiz (Geology of Switzerland, 1851,1853) that helped subsequent geologists like Eduard Suess despite the fact that he suggested the formation of the alps by the now obsolete primary uplift theory.

Charles-Édouard Guillaume

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Christoph Gerber

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Didier Queloz

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Felix Bloch

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Ferdinand de Saussure

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Fritz Zwicky

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Heinrich Rohrer

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Hermann Weyl

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Jack Steinberger

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Jacques Dubochet

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K. Alex Müller

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Kurt Wüthrich

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Origin Of

Swiss chalet style

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Alberto Giacometti

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Antonio Ciseri

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Carpoforo Tencalla

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Source Carpoforo Tencalla (Wikipedia)Wikipedia sections

Quote, Wikipedia sections

Tencalla was born in Bissone in southern Switzerland

Daniel Lindtmayer

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Born: Schaffhausen (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) (inhabited place)

Le Corbusier

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Marianne Straub

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Melchior Paul von Deschwanden

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Born: Stans (Nidwalden, Switzerland) (inhabited place)

Paul Klee

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Performance Art

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Robert Frank

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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

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Four in a Jeep

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Three Colours: Red

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Winged Migration

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Absinthe

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Älplermagronen

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Basler Läckerli

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Cholera (food)

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Fondue

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Gruyère

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Käsespätzle

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Malakoff (food)

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Maluns

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Muesli

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Raclette

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Riz Casimir

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Rösti

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Swiss Cuisine

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Tripe

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Zürcher Geschnetzeltes

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Henry Dunant

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Johann Ludwig Burckhardt

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Locarno Treaties

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Meyer Guggenheim

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Peace of Basel

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Confessions

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Dada Manifesto 1918

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Dadaism

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Performance Poetry

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Sound Poetry

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Steppenwolf

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Ferdinand de Saussure

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Quote, Lead sentence 1

Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure (; French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher.

Jean-Louis Calandrini

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Amish

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Source Wikipedia: AmishLead sectiontier 3

Quote, Lead section

The Amish ( , also or ; Pennsylvania German: Amisch), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins.

Militia System

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Source Militia System (Wikipedia)Lead section

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is a common organizational principle in Swiss public life

Site Of

Bollingen Tower

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Champvent Castle

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Chillon Castle

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ETH Zurich Department of Architecture

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Founded in 1854, the Department of Architecture (D-ARCH) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland is an architecture school in Zürich, providing education in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design.

Federal Palace of Switzerland

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Founding of CIAM

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Founding of the UIA

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Gstaad Palace

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Hagenwil Castle

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Palace of Nations

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Simplon Hospice

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Swiss National Stud Farm

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Villa Diodati

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Villa Fallet

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Villa Jeanneret-Perret

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Villa Le Lac

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Villa Merian

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Villa Mettlen

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Villa Negroni

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Villa Schwob

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Villa Senar

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Villa Tobler

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Zug Castle

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Zurich Hauptbahnhof

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Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, and known in English as Zurich Main Station, is the largest railway station in Switzerland and one of the busiest in Europe.

Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti)

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Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

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Houses at L'Estaque

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La Bella Principessa

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Plan of Saint Gall

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Aargau Southern Railway

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ABB

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The company was formed in 1988 from the merger of two electrical engineering companies, ASEA of Sweden and Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) of Switzerland.

Actelion

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Alcon Inc.

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Alcon is incorporated in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, and its global headquarters are located in Geneva, but its main operational base is in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people.

Appenzell Railways

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Banque Bonhôte

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BDWM Transport

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Bernese Jura Railway

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BFM (brewery)

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BLS AG

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Bodensee-Toggenburg railway

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Brienz Rothorn Railway

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Brügger & Thomet

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BZ Bank

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Cardinal Brewery

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Chatel-St-Denis-Palezieux Railway

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Chemin de fer Châtel-St-Denis-Bulle-Montbovon

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Chemin de fer Châtel-St-Denis-Palézieux

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Chemins de fer du Jura

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Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyère

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Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans

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Found There

Brown Swiss Cattle

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Source Oklahoma State University, Department of Animal and Food Sciences: Brown Swiss Cattle - Breeds of LivestockBreed history

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Switzerland, The Native Home of the Brown Swiss breed of cattle, is a very rough and mountainous country with a total area of about 15,940 square miles.

Saanen Goat

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Simmental Cattle

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Toggenburg Goat

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Valais Blacknose

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Aargletschers