Switzerland
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Switzerland is filled. The 5 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Switzerland. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 46.8°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 5.5°E–10.9°E, 45.6°N–48.0°N.
Disputed areas
none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Switzerland. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.
News sources
2 sources from Switzerlandin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.
- SRF
- 24 heures
sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present
Official alerts
An official alerting source is connected for Switzerland: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).
This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.
National legislature
Federal Assembly of Switzerland ↗
Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
We couldn't reach the weather service just now, so no conditions are shown. This is not a report that conditions are calm.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Bern, 2026-09-20Sunrise 7:14 AM · sunset 7:32 PM12h 18m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- CHEuncited
- Driving side
- rightcited
- Mains voltage
- 230 Vcited
- Capital
- Berncited
- Official languages
- cited
4 official languages
French, German, Italian, Romansh
- Plug types
- Type C (Europlug), Type J (SN 441011)cited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- admin.ch ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
Population and economy
Population
Population of Switzerland: the UN's 2025 estimate is 9,092,436 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 9.9 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 9,092,436 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 9,005,582 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 9.9 more an hour (86,912 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 9,092,4362025
- GDP
- 1,043,529,899,2512025
- GDP per capita
- 114,7692025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 84.4 years2024
- Exports
- 78.1%2025
- Imports
- 69.1%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
In this country's own words
A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.
Also recorded in Latin.
World Heritage Sites
13 World Heritage Sitesshow all
- Old City of Bern · inscribed 1983
- Abbey of Saint Gall · inscribed 1983
- Saint John Abbey · inscribed 1983
- Three Castles of Bellinzona · inscribed 2000
- Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area · inscribed 2001
- Monte San Giorgio site fossils · inscribed 2003 · shared with Italy
The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.
- Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe · inscribed 2007 · shared with Albania, Austria and 15 more countries
- Lavaux · inscribed 2007
- Glarus thrust · inscribed 2008
- Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes · inscribed 2008 · shared with Italy
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning · inscribed 2009
- prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps · inscribed 2011 · shared with Austria, Germany and 3 more countries
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier · inscribed 2016 · shared with Argentina, Belgium and 4 more countries
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 112listed as: emergency service
- 117listed as: police
- 118listed as: fire department
- 140listed as: roadside assistance
- 144listed as: emergency medical services
- 145listed as: poisoning
- 1414listed as: emergency medical services
- 1414listed as: helicopter
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
- Aargau
- Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Appenzell Innerrhoden
- Basel-City
- Basel-Landschaft
- Bern
- Fribourg
- Geneva
- Glarus
- Grisons
- Jura
- Lucerne
- Neuchâtel
- Nidwalden
- Obwalden
- Saint Gallen
- Schaffhausen
- Schwyz
- Solothurn
- Thurgau
- Ticino
- Uri
- Valais
- Vaud
- Zug
- Zurich
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
CHF
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.