Cantons of Switzerland

Last modified: 2025-01-11 by martin karner
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For districts and communes click on the individual cantons in the list below,
or go to the linked map at Clickable map of Switzerland.

• Aargau (clickable map)
• Appenzell:
  • Appenzell Ausserrhoden (clickable map)
  • Appenzell Innerrhoden (clickable map)
• Basel:
  • Baselland (clickable map)
  • Basel-Stadt (clickable map)
• Bern / Berne
• Fribourg / Freiburg (clickable map)
• Genève (clickable map)
• Glarus (clickable map)
• Graubünden / Grischun / Grigioni
• Jura
• Luzern (clickable map)
• Neuchâtel
• Sankt Gallen (clickable map)
• Schaffhausen (clickable map)
• Schwyz (clickable map)
• Solothurn
• Thurgau
• Ticino
• Unterwalden:
  • Nidwalden (clickable map)
  • Obwalden (clickable map)
• Uri (clickable map)
• Valais / Wallis (clickable map)
• Vaud
• Zug (clickable map)
• Zürich (clickable map)

• Clickable map of Switzerland
• Switzerland: ethnical/linguistic regions
• Swiss Cantons Patchwork Flag
• Swiss communal flags with St. George and the Dragon
• "Moors on Coats of Arms and 'Negro Slices'"
• Switzerland
  
  
• Swiss communal emblems with St. James' shells (German Wikipedia) | Legend of St. James' shells
• Pflanzen in Wappen (by Pestalozzi-Kalender, 1960, German)
• Seit 1941 eingetretene formale Änderungen schweizerischer Kantonswappen und -fahnen (by Louis Mühlemann, 1973, German)
• Der Baselstab im Gemeindewappen [Basel-Stadt, Baselland, Bern, Jura] (by Günter Mattern, 1978, German)
• Gute Wappen, schlechte Wappen / Bonnes et mauvaises armoiries (by Hans Rüegg, 2004, German / French abstract)
• The Colours Black-White as "Inferior" Colours of the Reich (by Günter Mattern, ICV 22, 2007, German / English abstract)
• Klassifizierung der Beweggründe für die Wahl von Wappenmotiven (by Hans Rüegg, 2017, German)
• Wappen mit Bezug zu historischen Ereignissen und Begebenheiten (by Hans Rüegg, 2018, German)
• Wappen mit Bezug zu Spitz- und Übernamen (by Hans Rüegg, 2019, German)
• Die faszinierende Vielfalt der Schweizer Wappen (by Tages-Anzeiger, 2022, German | Facts and statistics about the Swiss communal emblems)
• Tiere in der Heraldik (www.symbolforschung.ch, German)