Regions of Switzerland

Romandy is the French-speaking historical and cultural region of Switzerland. In 2020, about 2 million people, or 22.8% of the Swiss population, lived in Romandy. The majority of the population lives in the western part of the country, especially the region along Lake Geneva, connecting Geneva, Vaud, and the Lower Valais.

thumb|upright=1.2|The lakes of the upper Engadine and the town of St. Moritz The Engadin or Engadine ( ; or ; ; ) is a long high Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden in southeasternmost Switzerland with about 25,000 inhabitants. It follows the route of the Inn () from its headwaters at Maloja Pass in the southwest running roughly northeast until the Inn flows into Austria, little less than one hundred kilometers downstream. The En/Inn subsequently flows at Passau into the Danube, making it the only Swiss river to drain into the Black Sea. The Engadine is p

geographic region

portion of the Alps mountain range that lies within Switzerland

Unterwalden, translated from the Latin inter silvas ("between the forests"), is the old name of a forest-canton of the Old Swiss Confederacy in central Switzerland, south of Lake Lucerne, consisting of two valleys or Talschaften, now two separate Swiss cantons (or two half-cantons), Obwalden and Nidwalden.

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area of ​​Switzerland with a predominantly German or Swiss German speaking population

Jura region of the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Part of it formed the canton of Jura

Appenzell () was a canton in the northeast of Switzerland, and entirely surrounded by the canton of St. Gallen, in existence from 1403 to 1597.

region of Switzerland

Lumnezia is a valley region and a municipality in the Surselva Region in the Swiss of canton of the Grisons. The former municipalities of Cumbel, Degen, Lumbrein, Morissen, Suraua, Vignogn, Vella, and Vrin merged on 1 January 2013 into the new municipality of Lumnezia. It covers the Val Lumnezia (), a Swiss high alpine valley. Its upper regions are among the most remote areas in the Swiss Alps. The official language is Romansh.

geographical object

valley in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland

mountain in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland

valley in Switzerland

statistical region of Switzerland

The Prättigau is a geographical region in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland. It consists of the main valley of the river Landquart and the valleys of its side-rivers and creeks. Landquart River, which drains into the Alpine Rhine in the town of the same name, is on its upper end home to the ski resorts of Klosters.

Highlands in Switzerland

region in Switzerland

metropolitan area in Switzerland

region of Switzerland

region of Switzerland

thumb|The linden leaf was used on the seal of the reeve of Fricktal in the 16th century. In 1802, the linden leaf was used in the seal of the administration of the Canton of Fricktal. [[Schupfart used argent a linden leaf vert as municipal coat of arms from 1873. Since 1997, the same coat of arms is unofficially used to represent Fricktal.]] The Fricktal ("Frick Valley") is a region on Northwestern Switzerland, comprising the Laufenburg and Rheinfelden districts of the Swiss canton of Aargau. The region was known as Frickgau in the medieval period, ultimately from a Late Latin , in reference

geographic region in the lower Hinterrhein valley, opposite Domleschg, Graubünden, Switzerland

valley in Canton of Valais, Switzerland

The Zimmerberg (el. ) is a mountain and a region in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Its name comes from the Old High German word zimbar, meaning lumber. thumb|upright|Zimmerberg and Sihl Valley as seen from [[Felsenegg (April 2010)]] thumb|upright|Zürichsee and eastern slope of the Zimmerberg (to the right) thumb|upright|Hüttnersee and Zimmerberg plateau as seen to the northwest, [[Lake Zürich and Pfannenstiel in the background]] thumb|upright|Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft motor ship Zimmerberg

thumb|The Rheinwald looking north between Nufenen and Hinterrhein The Rheinwald (from Latin Rheni vallis meaning "Rhine Valley"; Romansh: Valrain) is a valley in the Canton of Grisons in Switzerland, the first section of the Hinterrhein valley. The river Hinterrhein flows through three valleys in the Grisons, the Rheinwald, the Schams and the Domleschg.

The Oberaargau is the region that encompasses the upper watershed of the Aar River in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On the north, lie the Jura Mountains, and on the south the hills leading to the Emmental.

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Italian and Lombard-speaking parts of Switzerland

valley in Ticino, Switzerland

valley in canton of Zürich, Switzerland

thumb|300px|The Üechtland on a map from 1732

valley

Swiss region and a river valley next to the city of Zurich

valley