Fun facts about Switzerland

1. The official name of Switzerland is Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin. Which means Swiss Confederation.
2. Zurich and Geneva are consistently in the top ten most livable cities in the world.
3. The Swiss franc is the official currency of Switzerland.
4. Geneva, Switzerland is also home to the second largest of the four major office sites of the United Nations.
5. Swiss consumption of chocolates per capital is the highest in the world.
6. Mountaineering, snowboarding, and skiing are some of the popular sports in Switzerland.
7. Half of the luxury watches produced in the world come from Switzerland.
8. Bern is the capital of Switzerland. Zurich is its largest city.
9. Switzerland shares a land border with Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Italy and France.
10. Switzerland has enough underground bunker capacity that it can hide its entire population in case of a nuclear war.
11. There are over 1500 lakes in Switzerland, containing 6% of europes fresh water stocks.
12. The official currency of Switzerland is the Swiss franc.
13. A giant three-legged chair in Geneva, Switzerland is dedicated to the opposition of using land mines. It is known as The Broken Chair.
14. CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory is based in Geneva.
15. Animals are also represented by lawyers in Switzerland's courts.
16. There is a large Hadron collider spanning the Swiss and French border.
17. Switzerland is famous for chocolate, cheese, banking, watches and alpine mountain areas.
18. The Swiss guards that protect the Vatican City are dual citizens and the only Swiss citizens allowed to serve in a foreign army.
19. Traditional Swiss sports include Schwingen (wrestling), Hornussen, (a cross between baseball and golf) and Steinstossen (stone put).
20. Offical languages in Switzerland include, German, French, Italian and Romansh. English is also widely taught.
21. The oldest university in Switzerland is the university of Basel (founded in 1460).
22. Former number 1 ranked tennis champion was born in Basel, Switzerland.
23. Switzerland is not part of the EU.
24. Switzerland is one of the two countries in the world to have a square flag. The other is Vatican City.
25. Swiss chocolatiers Peter and Henri Nestl, invented milk chocolate in 1875.