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Welcome to
IAESTE Switzerland

Emergency numbers

117
Police
114
Ambulance
118
Fire Dpt.

General Information

  • Capital city

    Bern

  • Language

    German, French, Italian and Romansch

  • Time zone

    UTC+1 (summer time: UTC+2)

  • Currency

    Swiss Franc (CHF)

  • Voltage

  • Climate

    Typical central european climate, with cold winters and warm summers, and soft temperatures in Spring and Autumn (except the Alps)

  • Country dialing code

    +41

  • SIM card providers

    Yallo

  • Population

    8.5 million

Cities with IAESTE LCs

In Switzerland we have 4 cities with local committees:

Zurich

Bern

Basel

Lausanne

Places that we recommend visiting:

Traditional cuisine

Cheese fondue

Swiss chocolate

Rösti

Did you know ?

Switzerland is the only country that has a square flag.

Switzerland has more than 1,500 lakes.

Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web in Switzerland in 1989.

In case of a nuclear war, Switzerland has enough bunkers to housing 114% of their entire population.

Albert Einstein invented the famous equation E=MC2 while he was in Switzerland.

Charlie Chaplin spent the last 25 years of his life in Switzerland.

Gallery

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