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Huh, curious that the news site of the public broadcaster of the country doesn't clarify that Bern is the de facto but not dejure capital city... As Wikipedia
by netsharc 3y ago
Huh, curious that the news site of the public broadcaster of the country doesn't clarify that Bern is the de facto but not dejure capital city...
As Wikipedia says:
> Bern is referred to as "federal city" (German: Bundesstadt, French: ville fédérale, Italian: città federale). Swiss law does not designate a capital as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel, St. Gallen a.o.).
- panick21_ 3y agoBecause its kind of an irrelevant difference and everybody in Switzerland just calls Bern the Capital.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoBern is the closest thing the Swiss have to a capital. Most of the foreign embassies are located there (if not all, though some countries just have a presence in Geneva).