List of cities in Switzerland
Below is a list of towns and cities in Switzerland. Until 2014 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants were considered to be towns. Since 2014, the Federal Statistical Office uses a new algorithm to define whether a municipality can be called a town or not; it now also depends on its character. Currently, FSO considers 162 municipalities as towns/cities in Switzerland. Further, some municipalities which would fulfill such a definition nevertheless prefer to understand themselves still as a village, or consequently refer to themselves just as municipalities. The Swiss definition of a town differs from the definition of a municipality.
List of towns and cities
This is an alphabetical list of towns or cities, which follows the FSO's definition, as well as places with historic town rights and/or market towns.- Places in bold print are towns because of the FSO's definition and historic town/market rights.
- Places in italics are towns excluded by the FSO's definition, but places which have either historic town rights or historic market rights.
- Places in normal print are towns according to the FSO's definition.
- Places that had lost historic town rights previously are identified with "-h".
- Cantonal capitals are underlined.