Zurich
Canton of Zurich
Zürich District

Zurich

Zurich is the largest city in and an international financial centre. Zurich is close to some excellent skiing resorts and many people headed for the Swiss Alps don't spend much time in Zurich itself, but you'd be missing a lot if you don't explore Zurich.
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  • Type: City with 443,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the canton of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “City of Zurich”, “Stadt Zürich”, “ZH”, “Zürich”, and “Zurich, Switzerland”
  • Postal codes: 8000-8006, 8008, 8022, 8024, 8027, 8031, 8032, 8034, 8036-8038, 8040-8042, 8044-8053, 8055, 8057, 8063, 8064, and 8070
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Zurich Main Station and Zurich Opera House.

Railway station
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Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, and known in English as , is the largest railway station in and one of the busiest in .

Theater building
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The is an opera house in the Swiss city of Zurich. Located at the Sechseläutenplatz, it has been the home of the Zurich Opera since 1891, and also houses the Bernhard-Theater Zürich.

Arts center
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is the birthplace of the Dada art movement, founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916. It was founded by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings as a cabaret intended for artistic and political purposes.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wiedikon and Aussersihl.

Suburb
is a district in the city of Zurich. It corresponds to District number 3 and comprises the neighborhoods of , and . was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893.

Suburb
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is a district in the city of Zürich. Known officially as District number 4, the district is known as colloquially Chreis Cheib, cheib being the Zürich German word for an animal cadaver.

Suburb
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is a quarter in the district 6 in Zurich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893. As of 2025, the quarter has a population of 25,078, in an area of 2.47 km2.

Zurich

Latitude
47.3744° or 47° 22′ 28″ north
Longitude
8.541° or 8° 32′ 28″ east
Population
443,000
Elevation
429 metres (1,407 feet)
IATA airport code
ZRH
United Nations Location Code
CH ZRH
Open location code
8FVC9GFR+QC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240025182
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2657896
Wiki­data ID
Q72
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Zurich” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Zürich”
  • Albanian: “Cyrih”
  • Albanian: “Zyrih”
  • Albanian: “Zyrihu”
  • Amharic: “ዙሪክ”
  • Arabic: “زيورخ”
  • Aragonese: “Zúrich”
  • Armenian: “Ցյուրիխ”
  • Arpitan: “Tsurique”
  • Asturian: “Zúrich”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sürix”
  • Balinese: “Zürich”
  • Basque: “Zurich”
  • Basque: “Zürich”
  • Bavarian: “Zirich”
  • Belarusian: “Цюрых”
  • Bengali: “জুরিখ”
  • Bhojpuri: “जूरिख”
  • Bhojpuri: “ज्युरिख”
  • Bhojpuri: “ज्यूरिख”
  • Bhojpuri: “ज़्यूरिख़”
  • Bhojpuri: “ज्यूरिष”
  • Bosnian: “Zürich”
  • Breton: “Zürich”
  • Bulgarian: “Цюрих”
  • Burmese: “ဇူးရစ်ချ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Zúric”
  • Catalan: “Zuric”
  • Catalan: “Zúric”
  • Cebuano: “Zürich (kapital sa kanton)”
  • Cebuano: “Zürich”
  • Central Bikol: “Zurich”
  • Central Kurdish: “زوریخ”
  • Central Kurdish: “زیورخ”
  • Chavacano: “Zurich”
  • Chechen: “Цуьрих”
  • Chechen: “Цюрих”
  • Chinese: “Zürich”
  • Chinese: “苏黎世”
  • Chinese: “蘇黎世”
  • Chuvash: “Цюрих”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tsürih”
  • Croatian: “Zürich”
  • Czech: “Curych”
  • Dagbani: “Zurich”
  • Danish: “ZH”
  • Danish: “Zürich”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Zurix”
  • Dotyali: “ज्युरिक”
  • Dutch: “Zurich”
  • Dutch: “Zürich”
  • Eastern Mari: “Цӱрих”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “زوريخ”
  • Esperanto: “Zuriko”
  • Estonian: “Zürich”
  • Extremaduran: “Zurich”
  • Faroese: “Zürich”
  • Fijian: “Zuriki”
  • Finnish: “Zürich”
  • French: “ville de Zurich”
  • French: “Zuerich”
  • French: “Zurich”
  • French: “Zürich”
  • Galician: “Zúric”
  • Galician: “Zürich”
  • Georgian: “ციურიხი”
  • German: “Stadt Zürich”
  • German: “Zuerich”
  • German: “Zürich”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Zürich”
  • Greek: “Ζυρίχη”
  • Gujarati: “જ્યૂરિચ”
  • Haitian: “Zirik”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Zürich”
  • Hawaiian: “Kuki”
  • Hebrew: “ציריך”
  • Hindi: “ज़्यूरिख़”
  • Hungarian: “Zürich”
  • Icelandic: “Zürich”
  • Ido: “Zürich”
  • Iloko: “Zürich”
  • Inari Sami: “Zürich”
  • Indonesian: “Zurich”
  • Indonesian: “Zürich”
  • Interlingua: “Zurich”
  • Interlingua: “Zürich”
  • Interlingue: “Zúrich”
  • Irish: “Zürich”
  • Italian: “Zurigo”
  • Japanese: “ズーリッヒ”
  • Japanese: “チューリッヒ”
  • Japanese: “チューリッヒ市”
  • Japanese: “チューリヒ”
  • Javanese: “Zürich”
  • Kabyle: “Zurix”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Zurich”
  • Kannada: “ಜ್ಯೂರಿ‍ಕ್”
  • Kannada: “ಜ್ಯೂರಿಚ್”
  • Kannada: “ಝ್ಯೂರಿಖ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Cyurix”
  • Kazakh: “Цюрих қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Цюрих”
  • Kirghiz: “Цюрих”
  • Korean: “취리히”
  • Kotava: “Zürich”
  • Kurdish: “Zurîx”
  • Ladin: “Turitg”
  • Ladin: “Zurich”
  • Ladino: “Zurich”
  • Latin: “Tigurum”
  • Latin: “Turicum”
  • Latvian: “Cīrihe”
  • Ligurian: “Zurïgo”
  • Limburgan: “Zeurich”
  • Lingala: “Tsúri (engumba)”
  • Lingala: “Tsúri”
  • Lithuanian: “Ciurichas”
  • Lombard: “Zürigh”
  • Low German: “Zürich”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Zürich”
  • Luxembourgish: “Stad Zürich”
  • Luxembourgish: “Zürech”
  • Luxembourgish: “Zürich”
  • Macedonian: “Цирих”
  • Malagasy: “Zürich”
  • Malay: “Zurich”
  • Malay: “Zürich”
  • Malayalam: “സൂറിച്ച്”
  • Maltese: “Zurich”
  • Maltese: “Zürich”
  • Marathi: “झ्युरिक”
  • Mazanderani: “زوریخ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sŭ-là̤-sié”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Zürich”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Zürich”
  • Mingrelian: “ციურიხი”
  • Mongolian: “Цюрих хот”
  • Mongolian: “Цюрих”
  • Nauru: “Zürich”
  • Navajo: “Beʼekʼid Hóneezíbąąh”
  • Neapolitan: “Zurigo”
  • Nepali: “ज्युरिक”
  • Northern Frisian: “Zürich”
  • Northern Sami: “Zürich”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zürich”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zürich”
  • Norwegian: “Zürich”
  • Novial: “Zürich”
  • Nyanja: “Zürich”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Zuric”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܙܝܘܪܚ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܣܝܪܝܟ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Turic”
  • Ossetian: “Цюрих”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਿਊਰਿਖ”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਿਊਰਿਖ”
  • Papiamento: “Zurich”
  • Pedi: “Zürich”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Zurich”
  • Persian: “زوریخ”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Zirich”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Zürich”
  • Piemontese: “Zurigh”
  • Polish: “Miasto Zurychu”
  • Polish: “ZH”
  • Polish: “Zurych”
  • Portuguese: “Zurique”
  • Pushto: “څوریخ”
  • Quechua: “Zürich”
  • Romanian: “ZH”
  • Romanian: “Zurich”
  • Romanian: “Zürich”
  • Romansh: “Turi”
  • Romansh: “Turich”
  • Romansh: “Turitg.”
  • Romansh: “turitg”
  • Romansh: “Turitg”
  • Rundi: “Zurich”
  • Russian: “Цюрих”
  • Rusyn: “Цюрих”
  • Scots: “Zurich”
  • Scots: “Zürich”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Zürich”
  • Serbian: “ZH”
  • Serbian: “Град Цирих”
  • Serbian: “Зурих”
  • Serbian: “Цирих”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zürich”
  • Sicilian: “Zuricu”
  • Sicilian: “Zurìcu”
  • Silesian: “Zürich”
  • Sindhi: “زيورخ”
  • Sinhala: “සූරිච්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Zürich”
  • Slovak: “Zürich”
  • Slovenian: “Zürich”
  • South Azerbaijani: “زوریخ”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Zúrich”
  • Spanish: “Zúrich (Suiza)”
  • Spanish: “Zúrich”
  • Sundanese: “Zürich”
  • Swahili: “Zürich”
  • Swedish: “Zürich”
  • Swiss German: “Züri”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Zürich”
  • Tagalog: “Zürich”
  • Tajik: “Зюрих”
  • Tajik: “Тсюрих”
  • Tamil: “சூரிக்கு”
  • Tamil: “ஜூரிக்”
  • Tatar: “Tsürix”
  • Tatar: “Сүрих”
  • Telugu: “జ్యూరిక్”
  • Thai: “ซือริช”
  • Thai: “ซูริก”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Zürich”
  • Tulu: “ಜ್ಯೂರಿಕ್”
  • Turkish: “Stadt Zürich”
  • Turkish: “Turicum”
  • Turkish: “Ville de Zurich”
  • Turkish: “ZH”
  • Turkish: “Zuerich”
  • Turkish: “Zurich”
  • Turkish: “Zürich”
  • Turkish: “Zurigo”
  • Turkish: “Zürih”
  • Turkmen: “Zýurih”
  • Udmurt: “Цюрих”
  • Uighur: “سيۇرىخ”
  • Ukrainian: “Цюрих”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Zürich”
  • Urdu: “زیورخ”
  • Uzbek: “Syurix”
  • Venetian: “Zurigo”
  • Veps: “Cürih”
  • Vietnamese: “Zürich”
  • Vlax Romani: “Zürich”
  • Volapük: “Zürich”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zurich”
  • Welsh: “Zürich”
  • Western Armenian: “Զիւրիխ”
  • Western Frisian: “Zürich”
  • Western Panjabi: “زیورچ”
  • Wolof: “Zurich”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏黎世”
  • Yakut: “Цүрих”
  • Yiddish: “ציריך”
  • Yoruba: “Zürich”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇黎世”
  • “Zurich”
  • “Zürich”

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