- Last updated
- Terms of use
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- Organization
- Federal Statistical Office FSO
- Categories
- Government and public sector, Regions and cities
Description
This list is managed by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) and is updated according to the latest changes published in the Federal Gazette by the Geodesy and Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying (swisstopo). The historical list of communes - according to the latest version of the eCH-0071 standard - contains all the communes since 1848 and their mutations and serves as a reference for the identification and the designation of communes in several administrative operations at federal, cantonal and communal level, as well as in the private sector.
Resources
- SPARQL Evolution of the number of communes in...
- SPARQL Number of former ("no longer current") communes...
- SPARQL Number of active communes (current) by canton...
- SERVICE Swiss official commune register
- XML Historisiertes Gemeindeverzeichnis (XML Format)
- TXT Historisiertes Gemeindeverzeichnis (TXT Format)
Additional information
- Identifier
- municipality@bundesamt-fur-statistik-bfs
- Issued date
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- Modified date
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- Publisher
- BFS/OFS
- Contact points
- raumnomenklaturen@bfs.admin.ch
- Languages
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- English
- German
- French
- Italian
- Further information
- Landing page
- https://ld.admin.ch/dimension/municipality
- Documentation
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- Temporal coverage
- January 1, 1848
- Spatial coverage
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- Update interval
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- Metadata Access
- API (JSON) Download XML
