The canton of Zug, also spelled Zoug in French, is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland. It lies in central Switzerland and its capital is the city of Zug. At 239 square kilometres it is one of the smallest Swiss cantons by area, and rather than being split into districts it is made up of eleven municipalities. Settlement around Lake Zug reaches back to roughly 14,000 BC, and about fifty stilt house villages were built at 33 locations around the lake in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, some of which belong to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. The city of Zug was founded in the first half of the thirteenth century. The canton had an estimated 135,000 residents at the end of 2025.
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Zug, Cities Source Statoids: Cantons of Switzerland (Statoids)
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1. City Population: Switzerland: Administrative Division (citypopulation.de)
City PopulationCantons and Districts table, 2025 estimate columnQuote, Cantons and Districts table, 2025 estimate column
Zug Canton 75,930 85,546 100,052 113,105 128,794 134,977
2. Statoids: Cantons of Switzerland (Statoids)
StatoidsPrimary subdivisions table, area column
Zug CH.ZG SZ24 CH066 113,105 239 92 g Zug
Has Capital: Zug, Primary subdivisions table, capital column
Zug CH.ZG SZ24 CH066 113,105 239 92 g Zug
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is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland
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is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland
View the SourceSwitzerland (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationOn Continent: Europe, Switzerland article, leadQuote, On Continent: Europe, Switzerland article, lead
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located at the intersection of Central, Western, and Southern Europe.
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