Canton of Schwyz

The canton of Schwyz is a canton in central between the in the south, to the west and Lake Zürich in the north, centred on and named after the town of .
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  • Type: State with 164,000 residents
  • Description: canton of Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Canton of Schwytz”, “CH063”, “Kanton Schwyz”, “Schwytz”, “Schwyz”, and “SZ”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Furggelenstock and Kleiner Mythen.

Scenic viewpoint
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The is a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, located west of in the canton of Schwyz. It lies on the range surrounding .

Peak
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The is a mountain in the Schwyzer Alps of . The mountain lies in the canton of Schwyz, to the east of the , to the south of the in the valley of the Alp river, and to the north of the .

Church
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Schwyz and Unteriberg.

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is a town of 15,000 people in , and capital of the Kanton of the same name. It is home to the Museum of the Swiss Charters of Confederation.

Village
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is a village and municipality in in the canton of Schwyz in . Besides the village of , the municipality includes the villages of Studen, Waag, Stöcken and Herti.

Village
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Alpthal is a village and municipality in in the canton of Schwyz in . Besides the village of Alpthal, the municipality includes the ski resort of , and settlement of Eigen.

Canton of Schwyz

Latitude
47.0572° or 47° 3′ 26″ north
Longitude
8.7222° or 8° 43′ 20″ east
Population
164,000
Elevation
1,448 metres (4,751 feet)
Abbreviation
“SZ”
Open location code
8FVC3P4C+VV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313874600
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2658664
Wiki­data ID
Q12433
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Canton of Schwyz” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Afrikaans: “SZ”
  • Albanian: “Kantoni Schwyz”
  • Albanian: “Schwyz”
  • Albanian: “Shvic”
  • Albanian: “Shvici”
  • Amharic: “ሽቪጽ”
  • Arabic: “شفيتس”
  • Arabic: “كانتون شفيتس”
  • Aragonese: “Cantón de Schwyz”
  • Aragonese: “SZ”
  • Armenian: “Շվից”
  • Arpitan: “Quenton de Sieviche”
  • Arpitan: “Sieviche”
  • Arpitan: “SZ”
  • Asturian: “Cantón de Schwyz”
  • Asturian: “SZ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şvis”
  • Balinese: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Basque: “Schwyz kantonamendua”
  • Basque: “SZ”
  • Bavarian: “SZ”
  • Belarusian: “Кантон Швіц”
  • Belarusian: “Швіц”
  • Bengali: “ক্যান্টন অফ শোয়েজ”
  • Bengali: “শাভেজের ক্যান্টন”
  • Bengali: “শোয়েজ ক্যান্টন”
  • Bosnian: “Schwyz”
  • Breton: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Breton: “SZ”
  • Bulgarian: “Швиц”
  • Catalan: “Cantó de Schwyz”
  • Catalan: “Schwyz”
  • Catalan: “SZ”
  • Cebuano: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Chinese: “Schwyz Chiu”
  • Chinese: “施維茨州”
  • Chinese: “施维茨州”
  • Chinese: “舒懷茨州”
  • Chuvash: “Швиц”
  • Corsican: “SZ”
  • Croatian: “Schwyz”
  • Croatian: “SZ”
  • Czech: “Schwyz”
  • Czech: “SZ”
  • Danish: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Danish: “SZ”
  • Dutch: “Schwyz”
  • Dutch: “SZ”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Ŝvico”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝvico”
  • Esperanto: “SZ”
  • Estonian: “Schwyzi kanton”
  • Estonian: “SZ”
  • Finnish: “Schwyz”
  • Finnish: “SZ”
  • French: “canton de Schwytz”
  • French: “Canton de Schwytz”
  • French: “canton de Schwyz”
  • French: “Canton de Schwyz”
  • French: “Schwytz”
  • French: “Schwyz”
  • French: “SZ”
  • Friulian: “SZ”
  • Galician: “Cantón de Schwyz”
  • Galician: “SZ”
  • Georgian: “შვიცის კანტონი”
  • German: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • German: “Schwyz”
  • German: “SZ”
  • Greek: “Καντόνι του Σβυτς”
  • Gujarati: “કેન્ટન ઓફ શ્વાઝ”
  • Hausa: “Schwyz”
  • Hebrew: “קנטון שוויץ”
  • Hebrew: “שוויץ”
  • Hindi: “श्वीट्ज़ कैन्टन”
  • Hindi: “श्वीट्ज़ छावनी”
  • Hungarian: “Schwyz kanton”
  • Hungarian: “SZ”
  • Icelandic: “Schwyz”
  • Icelandic: “SZ”
  • Ido: “SZ”
  • Iloko: “Kanton ti Schwyz”
  • Iloko: “Schwyz”
  • Indonesian: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Indonesian: “SZ”
  • Interlingua: “SZ”
  • Interlingue: “Canton de Schwyz”
  • Interlingue: “SZ”
  • Irish: “cantún Schwyz”
  • Irish: “Schwyz”
  • Irish: “SZ”
  • Italian: “canton Svitto”
  • Italian: “Canton Svitto”
  • Italian: “Svitto”
  • Italian: “SZ”
  • Japanese: “シュヴィーツ州”
  • Javanese: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Kannada: “ಶ್ವಿಜ್ ಕ್ಯಾಂಟನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Швиц”
  • Kirghiz: “Швиц”
  • Kongo: “SZ”
  • Korean: “슈비츠 주”
  • Korean: “슈비츠”
  • Korean: “슈비츠주”
  • Kurdish: “Schwyz (kanton)”
  • Kurdish: “Schwyz”
  • Ladin: “Cianton de Schwyz”
  • Latin: “Suitia”
  • Latvian: “Švīces kantons”
  • Ligurian: “SZ”
  • Limburgan: “Schwyz”
  • Limburgan: “SZ”
  • Lingala: “Kanton ya Shvits”
  • Lithuanian: “Švico kantonas”
  • Lombard: “Canton Svit”
  • Low German: “SZ”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Luxembourgish: “Schwyz”
  • Luxembourgish: “SZ”
  • Macedonian: “Швиц”
  • Malagasy: “SZ”
  • Malay: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Malay: “SZ”
  • Marathi: “श्वित्स”
  • Mazanderani: “شوییز کانتون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Schwyz Chiu”
  • Minangkabau: “SZ”
  • Narom: “SZ”
  • Neapolitan: “SZ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Schwyz”
  • Northern Sami: “Schwyz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schwyz”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “SZ”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kantonen Schwyz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “SZ”
  • Norwegian: “Schwyz”
  • Novial: “Schwyz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canton de Schwyz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “SZ”
  • Oromo: “Schwyz”
  • Ossetian: “Швиц (кантон)”
  • Ossetian: “Швиц”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਵਿਜ਼”
  • Persian: “شویتز”
  • Persian: “کانتون اشووتس”
  • Picard: “SZ”
  • Piemontese: “Canton dë Schwyz”
  • Piemontese: “SZ”
  • Polish: “Schwyz”
  • Polish: “SZ”
  • Portuguese: “Cantão de Schwytz”
  • Portuguese: “Cantão de Schwyz”
  • Portuguese: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Portuguese: “Schwytz”
  • Portuguese: “Schwyz”
  • Portuguese: “SZ”
  • Pushto: “شویتز”
  • Romanian: “cantonul Schwyz”
  • Romanian: “Cantonul Schwyz”
  • Romanian: “SZ”
  • Romansh: “Chantun Sviz”
  • Romansh: “Sviz”
  • Romansh: “SZ”
  • Russian: “Швиц”
  • Sardinian: “SZ”
  • Scots: “Canton o Schwyz”
  • Scots: “SZ”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Schwyz”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “SZ”
  • Serbian: “SZ”
  • Serbian: “Кантон Швиц”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Schwyz”
  • Sicilian: “Canton Svittu”
  • Sicilian: “SZ”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ක්විස් දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovak: “Schwyz”
  • Slovak: “SZ”
  • Slovenian: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Slovenian: “Schwyz”
  • Slovenian: “SZ”
  • Somali: “Schwyz”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اشووتس”
  • Spanish: “Cantón de Schwyz”
  • Spanish: “Schwyz”
  • Spanish: “Suiza”
  • Spanish: “SZ”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Schwyz”
  • Swahili: “SZ”
  • Swedish: “Schwyz”
  • Swedish: “SZ”
  • Swiss German: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Swiss German: “Stand Schwyz”
  • Swiss German: “SZ”
  • Swiss German: “Urkanton Schwyz”
  • Tajik: “Швиц”
  • Tamil: “காண்டோன் ஆப் ஸ்ச்வ்ய்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Швиц”
  • Telugu: “కాంటన్ ఆఫ్ ష్విజ్”
  • Thai: “ซวนซ่า ซุล”
  • Thai: “รัฐชวีทซ์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kanton Schwyz”
  • Turkish: “canton de Schwytz”
  • Turkish: “Schwyz (kanton)”
  • Turkish: “Schwyz kantonu”
  • Turkish: “Schwyz”
  • Turkish: “Suitia”
  • Turkish: “Svitto”
  • Turkish: “Sviz”
  • Turkish: “SZ”
  • Ukrainian: “Швіц”
  • Urdu: “کینٹن شویتس”
  • Uzbek: “Shvits”
  • Venetian: “Canton Svito”
  • Venetian: “Canton Svitto”
  • Venetian: “SZ”
  • Vietnamese: “Bang Schwyz”
  • Vietnamese: “Schwyz”
  • Vietnamese: “SZ”
  • Vlaams: “SZ”
  • Volapük: “Jvizän”
  • Volapük: “SZ”
  • Walloon: “SZ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Schwyz”
  • Welsh: “Schwyz”
  • Welsh: “SZ”
  • Western Panjabi: “شوائز”
  • Wolof: “SZ”
  • Wu Chinese: “施维茨州”
  • Yiddish: “שוויץ”
  • Yue Chinese: “舒懷茨州”
  • Zulu: “SZ”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Seilpark am Mythen and Feuerwehr Alpthal.

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