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Switzerland is divided into 23 cantons (of which three in turn comprise two “half cantons” each; the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft were merging in 1936): With 98 residents per sq. km, Switzerland has a lower density than that of many European states, but nevertheless high if we consider that it is a state made… Read more »

Switzerland, small by extension, but dense in population, participates in the various civilizations of southern, western and central Europe. The Italian-speaking residents of the Ticino and Grisons Canton have united with the Alemannic lineages of German-speaking Switzerland, constituting the main nucleus of the population, and with the French-speaking Western ones, in a confederation that draws… Read more »