Switzerland

Twenty-Six Cantons

Twenty-six cantons, four national languages, and no capital city in the constitutional sense. Bern holds the title of federal city. The Bureau files it accordingly. The federal charter is dated 1291, which the register carries as the founding entry while noting that the document settles a dispute rather than founds a state. The Bureau prefers the earlier reading and has not amended the date. Twenty-six is a count, not an estimate, and is printed without qualification.

Designation	Alpine Republic
Gazetted	1291
Standing notice	Twenty-Six Cantons
Issuing office	Gazetteer Bureau of Tourism & Exploration

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The source image

The badge is drawn, not photographed. Each drawing works from a reference image in the public domain or under a free licence — a photochrom print, a photograph, an etching. Here is the one used for this destination, and why it was chosen.

The drawing follows a photograph taken at the Niesen Kulm, above Mülenen. It shows a chain of sharp summits forming a single mass against deep blue sky, with no cluttering foreground: a country does not reduce to one peak, it reduces to a line. The band carries 1291, the year of the Federal Charter, and twenty-six cantons. The country has four national languages and no capital in the constitutional sense: Bern holds the title of federal city, which is not the same thing, and the Bureau files accordingly. No summit is named on this badge, and that is deliberate: a country does not reduce to a peak, it reduces to a line.

Swiss Alps under a blue sky (Unsplash)

Credit: Mike Dennler
Held by: Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC0

View the original consulted 2026-08-12

Sources

Every figure engraved on this badge is checked against a public source before it is used. Consultation dates are given.

1291 — fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacte_fédéral consulted 18/08/2026
26 — fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_suisse consulted 18/08/2026

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