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Es en esta zona donde se ubican las ciudades y los lagos más grandes de Suiza. [51] El lago más grande del país es el lago Lemán , en la parte occidental del mismo y compartido con Francia. El clima es por lo general templado , pero puede variar mucho de localidad a localidad, [ 52 ] de las condiciones glaciares en la cima de las montañas a un clima casi mediterráneo en el sur del país.
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Switzerland, federated country of central Europe. Switzerland’s administrative capital is Bern, while Lausanne serves as its judicial centre. Switzerland’s small size—its total area is about half that of Scotland—and its modest population give little indication of its international significance.
A landlocked country of towering mountains, deep Alpine lakes, grassy valleys dotted with neat farms and small villages, and thriving cities that blend the old and the new, Switzerland is the nexus of the diverse physical and cultural geography of western Europe, renowned for both its natural beauty and its way of life. Aspects of both have become bywords for the country, whose very name conjures images of the glacier-carved Alps beloved of writers, artists, photographers, and outdoor sports enthusiasts from around the world.
For many outsiders, Switzerland also evokes a prosperous if rather staid and unexciting society, an image that is now dated. Switzerland remains wealthy and orderly, but its mountain-walled valleys are far more likely to echo the music of a local rock band than a yodel or an alphorn. Most Swiss live in towns and cities, not in the idyllic rural landscapes that captivated the world through Johanna Spyri’s Heidi (1880–81), the country’s best-known literary work. Switzerland’s cities have emerged as international centres of industry and commerce connected to the larger world, a very different tenor from Switzerland’s isolated, more inward-looking past. As a consequence of its remarkably long-lived stability and carefully guarded neutrality, Switzerland—Geneva, in particular—has been selected as headquarters for a wide array of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, including many associated with the United Nations (UN)—an organization the Swiss resisted joining until the early 21st century.
Switzerland’s rugged topography and multicultural milieu have tended to emphasize difference. People living in close proximity may speak markedly distinct, sometimes nearly mutually unintelligible dialects of their first language, if not a different language altogether. German, French, Italian, and Romansh all enjoy national status, and English is spoken widely. Invisible lines separate historically Protestant from historically Roman Catholic districts, while the tall mountains of the St. Gotthard Pass separate northern from southern Europe and their diverse sensibilities and habits. Yet, Switzerland has forged strength from all these differences, creating a peaceful society in which individual rights are carefully balanced against community and national interests.
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Switzerland is bordered to the west by France, to the north by Germany, to the east by Austria and Liechtenstein, and to the south by Italy. It extends about 135 miles (220 km) from north to south and 220 miles (350 km) at its widest extent from west to east. Switzerland’s landscape is among the world’s most unusual, and it has long had to contend ...
Geografía de Suiza. Vista de la cara norte del Eiger ( 3970 m, Alpes Berneses ). Suiza ( (en alemán: Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft; en francés: Confederation Suisse; en italiano: Confederazione Svizzera; en romanche: Confederaziun Svizra) es un país europeo, que se encuentra en el centro-oeste de dicho continente.
El país se encuentra en Europa occidental y central, donde limita con Italia al sur, al oeste con Francia, con Alemania al norte, y Austria y Liechtenstein al este. Es un país sin salida al mar y geográficamente dividido entre los Alpes , la meseta suiza y el Jur a, que abarca un área de 41.290 km2.
Suiza, oficialmente la Confederación Suiza, es un país sin salida al mar ubicado en Europa central…. Mapcarta, el mapa abierto.
Distancia de este a oeste: 346 km. Mayor altitud: Pico Dufour, en la cadena montañosa del Monte Rosa 4.634 m (15.203 pies) Menor altitud: Lago Maggiore (Tessino) 193 m (633 pies) Lagos: 1'484. Glaciares: 1400. Población total: 8,7 millones. Principales ciudades (habitantes aprox.): Zúrich: 402'782. Ginebra: 198'979. Basilea: 171'017. Berna: 133'115
Suiza, oficialmente la Confederación Suiza, es un país sin salida al mar ubicado en Europa central y que cuenta con una población de 8 670 000 habitantes (2018). Suiza es un Estado federal con 26 estados, llamados cantones y cuenta con cuatro idiomas oficiales: alemán, francés, italiano y romanche. Berna es llamada ciudad federal y es la sede de las autoridades federales, mientras que el ...
