🇨🇭 Switzerland 26 administrative divisions

26 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 4,344 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.

The country

ISO 3166-1: CH · CHE · 756
Capital: Bern
Continent: Europe
Currency: CHF — Swiss franc
Calling code: +41
Internet domain: .ch
Divisions: 26
Cities and towns: 4,344

Divisions

The 26 divisions of Switzerland

26 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.

Division	ISO 3166-2	Cities and towns	Population
Canton of Zurich	CH-ZH	592	1,620,020
Canton of Berne	CH-BE	570	1,063,533
Canton of the Grisons	CH-GR	373	204,888
Canton of Vaud	CH-VD	354	845,870
Canton of Ticino	CH-TI	329	358,903
Canton of Valais	CH-VS	268	365,844
Canton of Thurgau	CH-TG	254	295,220
Canton of Fribourg	CH-FR	252	341,537
Canton of Aargau	CH-AG	214	726,894
Canton of St. Gallen	CH-SG	208	535,114
Canton of Lucerne	CH-LU	130	432,744
Canton of Solothurn	CH-SO	108	286,844
Canton of Neuchatel	CH-NE	90	178,291
Canton of Jura	CH-JU	87	74,548
Canton of Geneva	CH-GE	85	524,410
Canton of Basel-Landschaft	CH-BL	77	298,837
Canton of Schwyz	CH-SZ	74	167,403
Canton of Schaffhausen	CH-SH	50	87,111
Canton of Glarus	CH-GL	42	42,056
Canton of Zug	CH-ZG	34	132,556
Canton of Uri	CH-UR	31	37,931
Canton of Basel-Stadt	CH-BS	28	200,031
Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden	CH-AR	24	56,495
Canton of Nidwalden	CH-NW	23	45,016
Canton of Obwalden	CH-OW	23	39,272
Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden	CH-AI	22	16,585

A further 2 places could not be matched to a division and are listed separately in the API as "unassigned": true.

Get it

Both files, in one request each

# every division of Switzerland
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/CH.json

# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/CH/<id>.json

No key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.