List of cities in Switzerland


Below is a list of towns and cities in Switzerland. Until 2014 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants were considered to be towns. Since 2014, the Federal Statistical Office uses a new algorithm to define whether a municipality can be called a town or not; it newly also depends on its character. Currently, FSO considers 162 municipalities as towns in Switzerland. Further, some municipalities, which would fulfill such a definition, nevertheless prefer to understand themselves still as a village, or consequently refer to themselves just as municipalities.
See Municipalities of Switzerland for a table of the largest and smallest.
Largest towns in Switzerland:
  1. Zürich
  2. Geneva
  3. Basel
  4. Lausanne
  5. Bern
  6. Winterthur
  7. Lucerne
  8. St. Gallen
  9. Lugano
  10. Biel/Bienne
  11. Thun
  12. Bellinzona
  13. Köniz
  14. Fribourg
  15. La Chaux-de-Fonds
  16. Schaffhausen
  17. Chur
  18. Vernier
  19. Uster
  20. Sion

    List of towns

This is an alphabetical list of towns, which follows FSO's definition, and places with historic town rights and/or market towns.