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Swiss cantons
*Schweizer Kantone* (German) *Cantons suisses* (French)
*Cantoni svizzeri* (Italian) *Chantuns svizras* (Romansh)
Swiss cantons ; Schweizer Kantone (German) Cantons suisses (French); Cantoni svizzeri (Italian) Chantuns svizras (Romansh)
Also known as:; Stände, États, Stati;
	Valais Ticino Grisons Geneva Vaud Neuchâtel Jura Bern Thurgau Zürich Aargau Lucerne Solothurn Basel-Landschaft Schaffhausen Uri Schwyz Glarus St. Gallen Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Ausserrhoden Obwalden Nidwalden Zug Fribourg Basel-Stadt France Italy Liechten-; stein Austria Germany
Category	Federated state
Location	Switzerland
Found in	Regions
Created	13th century;
Number	26 cantons (as of 1979)
Populations	16,003 (Appenzell Innerrhoden) – 1,487,969 (Canton of Zürich)
Areas	37 km2 (14 sq mi) – 7,105 km2 (2,743 sq mi)
Government	List of cantonal executives of Switzerland;
Subdivisions	Districts and municipalities;

The 26 cantons of Switzerland^[1] are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the Waldstätte. Two important periods in the development of the Old Swiss Confederacy are summarized by the terms Acht Orte ('Eight Cantons'; from 1353–1481) and Dreizehn Orte ('Thirteen Cantons', from 1513–1798).^[2]

Each canton of the Old Swiss Confederacy, formerly also Ort ('lieu/locality', from before 1450), or Stand ('estate', from c. 1550), was a fully sovereign state with its own border controls, army, and currency from at least the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848, with a brief period of centralised government during the Helvetic Republic (1798–1803). The term Kanton has been widely used since the 19th century.^[3]

The number of cantons was increased to 19 with the Act of Mediation (1803), with the recognition of former subject territories as full cantons. The Federal Treaty of 1815 increased the number to 22 due to the accession of former associates of the Old Swiss Confederacy. The canton of Jura acceded as the 23rd canton with its secession from Bern in 1979.^[4] The official number of cantons was increased to 26 in the federal constitution of 1999, which designated former half-cantons as cantons.

The areas of the cantons vary from 37 km² (15 sq. mi.) (Basel-Stadt) to 7,105 km² (2743 sq. mi.) (Grisons); the populations (as of 2018) range from 16,000 (Appenzell Innerrhoden) to 1.5 million (Zürich).

^ (German: Kanton; French: canton [kɑ̃tɔ̃]; Italian: cantone; Sursilvan and Surmiran: cantun; Vallader and Puter: Chantun; Sutsilvan: cantùn; Rumantsch Grischun: chantun)
^ rendered "the 'confederacy of eight'" and "the 'Thirteen-Canton Confederation'", respectively, in: "Chronology" (official site). Bern, Switzerland: The Swiss Federal Administration. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
^ Andreas Kley: Kantone in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 13 April 2016. "Die Bündnispartner der frühen Eidgenossenschaft wurden im 14. Jh. meist als Städte und Länder, ab der 1. Hälfte des 15. Jh. immer mehr als Orte bezeichnet."
^ François Schifferdecker, François Kohler: Jura (canton) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 20 July 2015.

[1] (German: Kanton; French: canton [kɑ̃tɔ̃]; Italian: cantone; Sursilvan and Surmiran: cantun; Vallader and Puter: Chantun; Sutsilvan: cantùn; Rumantsch Grischun: chantun)

[chrono-2] rendered "the 'confederacy of eight'" and "the 'Thirteen-Canton Confederation'", respectively, in: "Chronology" (official site). Bern, Switzerland: The Swiss Federal Administration. Retrieved 24 June 2018.

[HLS-3] Andreas Kley: Kantone in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 13 April 2016. "Die Bündnispartner der frühen Eidgenossenschaft wurden im 14. Jh. meist als Städte und Länder, ab der 1. Hälfte des 15. Jh. immer mehr als Orte bezeichnet."

[4] François Schifferdecker, François Kohler: Jura (canton) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 20 July 2015.

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Swiss cantons Schweizer Kantone (German) Cantons suisses (French) Cantoni svizzeri (Italian) Chantuns svizras (Romansh)
Also known as: Stände, États, Stati
Valais Ticino Grisons Geneva Vaud Neuchâtel Jura Bern Thurgau Zürich Aargau Lucerne Solothurn Basel-Landschaft Schaffhausen Uri Schwyz Glarus St. Gallen Appenzell Innerrhoden Appenzell Ausserrhoden Obwalden Nidwalden Zug Fribourg Basel-Stadt France Italy Liechten- stein Austria Germany
Category	Federated state
Location	Switzerland
Found in	Regions
Created	13th century
Number	26 cantons (as of 1979)
Populations	16,003 (Appenzell Innerrhoden) – 1,487,969 (Canton of Zürich)
Areas	37 km² (14 sq mi) – 7,105 km² (2,743 sq mi)
Government	List of cantonal executives of Switzerland
Subdivisions	Districts and municipalities

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