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These are lists of towns (and cities) in Switzerland. Until 2014 municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants were considered to be towns (German: Stadt/Städte, French: ville(s), Italian: città). Since 2014, the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) uses a new algorithm (called German: Statistische Städte 2012, or French: Villes statistiques 2012) 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 (German: Statistische Städte 2012, French: Villes statistiques 2012) 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 (German: Gemeinde, French: commune, Italian: commune).
See Municipalities of Switzerland for a table of the largest and smallest.
Largest cities in Switzerland:
- Zürich
- Geneva
- Basel
- Lausanne
- Bern
- Winterthur
- Lucerne
- St. Gallen
- Lugano
- Biel/Bienne
- Thun
- (Köniz, statistically only, the whole municipality, but not the village)
- La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Fribourg
- Schaffhausen
- Chur
- Vernier
- Neuchâtel
- Uster
- Sion
List of towns
This is an alphabetical list of towns, which follows FSO's definition (German: Statistische Städte 2012, French: Villes statistiques 2012), and places with historic town rights (h) and/or market towns (m).