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

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.