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Municipalities of the canton of Zürich

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Municipalities of the canton of Zürich

There are 167 municipalities in the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

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In general, municipalities (German: Politische Gemeinden) in Switzerland are grouped in districts (Bezirke), their capital municipalities are written in bold letters.

Mergers of municipalities

There were no changes between 1934 and 2013, but as of December 2016, there occurred in all four mergers as per 1 January 2014, 1 January 2015, 1 January 2016 and 1 January 2017.

  • 2014: Bertschikon bei Attikon and Wiesendangen → Wiesendangen
  • 2015: Bauma and Sternenberg → Bauma
  • 2016: Kyburg and Illnau-Effretikon → Illnau-Effretikon
  • 2018: Hirzel and Horgen → Horgen
  • planned: Hütten, Schönenberg and Wädenswil → Wädenswil

    • List of the municipalities

    There are listed the names of all the 171 municipalities as of 2013, i.e. before the four mergers in the modern history of the canton of Zürich occurred.

    References

    Municipalities of the canton of Zürich Wikipedia
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