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Discover Zurich. On the Zürich City Guide app, Zurich travelers can find not only key information and a digital city map, but also the practical Zürich Card city pass. If you are new to Zurich, visit the Tourist Information or take a city tour to get insider knowledge about the city.
Languages. German. Website. ZH .ch. Zürich ( Swiss German: Züri, French: Zurich, Italian: Zurigo, Romansh: Turitg) is a canton of Switzerland. About 1.2 million people live there. The canton is in the northeast of Switzerland. The city of Zürich is its capital. The official language is German, but people speak the local Swiss German dialect ...
The University of Zürich ( UZH, German: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, [6] with its 28,000 enrolled students. [7] It was founded in 1833 [8] from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine which go back to 1525, and a new ...
Oct 4, 2023 · Zurich (German: Zürich, Zürich German: Züri) is the largest city in Switzerland, with a population of some 428700 in the city proper and 1.4 million in the agglomeration area. Zurich is on Lake Zurich, where the lake flows into the River Limmat, in the north of Switzerland.
Oct 3, 2023 · U.S. News Insider Tip: Every day at 9 a.m., Zurich’s bauarbeiten (construction workers) pause for a z’Nüni, a midmorning snack.Bakeries and metzgerei (butchers/delis) stock an assortment of z ...
Schlieren was first mentioned in 828. [3] Until 1415, Schlieren belonged to Habsburg. After the conquest of Aargau by the Swiss Confederates it was a component of the county of Baden. In 1803 Schlieren was assigned to the Canton of Zürich. In 1777 the minister Heinrich Keller created here the first "deaf-mute school" in Switzerland.
Switzerland's 13 institutes of higher learning enrolled 99,600 students in the academic year of 2001–02. About 25% of the adult population hold a diploma of higher learning. According to the CIA World Factbook data for 2003, 99% of the Swiss population aged 15 and over could read and write, with the rate being identical for both sexes.
