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Switzerland Education
Some
people imagine that Switzerland is as cold as Alaska,
but this is far from the truth. In the plain,
temperatures can rise to 30ºC (86ºF) in the summer, and
even in the mountains the sun is hot. In the winter,
temperatures rarely drop below minus 5ºC (41ºF) in the
entire country, save the mountaintops. The four
national languages of Switzerland are German, French,
Italian, and Romansh.[2] Only three of these languages,
however, maintain equal status as official languages at
the national level within the Federal. The Swiss franc, denoted CHF (which
stands for the Confoederatio Helvetica franc), is the
official currency of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The
currency is used by the Central Bank of Switzerland. The population of Switzerland in 2003
was estimated by the United Nations at 7,169,000, which
placed it as number 93 in population among the 193
nations of the world. In that year approximately 15% of
the population was over 65 years of age, with another
17% of the population under 15 years of age. The city of Bern or Berne is the
Bundesstadt (federal city, de facto capital) of
Switzerland, and, with (as of December 2009) a
population of 131,000, the fourth most populous city in
Switzerland. Image Gallery:
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