🇨🇭 Switzerland 26 administrative divisions

26 first-level administrative divisions (states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country) and 22,507 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: 22,507

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 Aargau	CH-AG	950	726,894
Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden	CH-AR	586	56,495
Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden	CH-AI	341	16,585
Canton of Basel-Landschaft	CH-BL	485	298,837
Canton of Basel-Stadt	CH-BS	30	200,031
Canton of Berne	CH-BE	4,828	1,063,533
Canton of Fribourg	CH-FR	1,081	341,537
Canton of Geneva	CH-GE	159	524,410
Canton of Glarus	CH-GL	118	42,056
Canton of Jura	CH-JU	448	74,548
Canton of Lucerne	CH-LU	2,635	432,744
Canton of Neuchatel	CH-NE	442	178,291
Canton of Nidwalden	CH-NW	325	45,016
Canton of Obwalden	CH-OW	356	39,272
Canton of Schaffhausen	CH-SH	141	87,111
Canton of Schwyz	CH-SZ	684	167,403
Canton of Solothurn	CH-SO	496	286,844
Canton of St. Gallen	CH-SG	1,669	535,114
Canton of the Grisons	CH-GR	703	204,888
Canton of Thurgau	CH-TG	1,037	295,220
Canton of Ticino	CH-TI	557	358,903
Canton of Uri	CH-UR	221	37,931
Canton of Valais	CH-VS	602	365,844
Canton of Vaud	CH-VD	1,378	845,870
Canton of Zug	CH-ZG	268	132,556
Canton of Zurich	CH-ZH	1,966	1,620,020

A further 1 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.