Key facts
Capital:Bern
Location:Central Europe, east of France, north of Italy
Currency:Swiss francs (CHF)
Area:41,277 sq km
Population:8,453,550 (July 2021 est.)
Languages:German (or Swiss German) (official) 62.1%, French (official) 22.8%, Italian (official) 8%, English 5.7%, Portuguese 3.5%, Albanian 3.3%, Serbo-Croatian 2.3%, Spanish 2.3%, Romansh (official) 0.5%, other 7.9%; note - German, French, Italian, and Romansh are all national and official languages; shares sum to more than 100% because respondents could indicate more than one main language (2019 est.)
Religion:Roman Catholic 34.4%, Protestant 22.5%, other Christian 5.7%, Muslim 5.5%, other 1.6%, none 29.5%, unspecified 0.8% (2019 est.)
TimeZone:UTC+1
Tel Code:+41
