Switzerland
Switzerland: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
country · population 9,000,000 (registry) · Europe · page prepared 2026-11-07
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Switzerland at a glance
Rolled up from the 32 regions inside Switzerland on this site.
Largest places in Switzerland
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Zürich, Switzerland full436,551
- 2.Basel full177,595
- 3.Bern (Berne), Switzerland full146,867
- 4.Winterthur, Switzerland122,758
- 5.Lucerne (Luzern), Switzerland full82,000
- 6.Lugano, Switzerland full62,315
- 7.Fribourg, Switzerland full38,365
- 8.Schaffhausen, Switzerland full37,000
- 9.Sion, Switzerland34,978
- 10.Montreux, Switzerland full27,000
- 11.Nyon, Switzerland21,718
- 12.Martigny, Switzerland20,000
- 13.Davos full10,832
- 14.Gstaad, Switzerland9,200
- 15.Porrentruy, Switzerland6,675
Inside Switzerland
32 regions have Switzerland as their parent.
- Arosa, Switzerland
- Ascona-Locarno
- Basel
- Bern (Berne), Switzerland
- Davos
- Fribourg, Switzerland
- Geneva (Genève)
- Grindelwald, Switzerland
- Gstaad, Switzerland
- Hergiswil, Switzerland town
- Interlaken, Switzerland
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Lucerne (Luzern), Switzerland
- Lugano, Switzerland
- Martigny, Switzerland town
- Montreux, Switzerland
- Moudon, Switzerland
- Nyon, Switzerland
- Porrentruy, Switzerland
- Romanshorn town
- Rorschach
- Schaffhausen, Switzerland
- Sion, Switzerland
- St. Gallen, Switzerland
- St. Moritz, Switzerland
- Thun, Switzerland
- Verbier, Switzerland
- Weinfelden, Switzerland
- Winterthur, Switzerland
- Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
- Zermatt, Switzerland
- Zürich, Switzerland
Companies based in Switzerland
137 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here (the first 80 shown), and 235 across Switzerland and the places inside it — search them all below.
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Switzerland are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.