Switzerland (, officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE)'s a landlocked alpine country of roughly 7.7 million people (2009) in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km². Switzerland's a federal republic consisting of 26 states, called cantons. Bern's the seat of the federal authorities, while the country's economic centres are its three global cities, Geneva, Basel and especially Zürich. Switzerland's one of the riche… (More on Switzerland)