Bern in Switzerland
by Rob Hemphill
Title
Bern in Switzerland
Artist
Rob Hemphill
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The River Aare flows through the city of Bern in a horseshoe-shape, part of it is seen here in the foreground. It passes beneath eighteen bridges and around the steeply-flanked peninsula on which the Old City of Berne is located.
Bern is the de-facto capital of Switzerland. However, the country does not have an official capital city, so Bern is referred to within Switzerland as the federal city.
With a population of about 140,000 (as of 2019), Bern is the fifth-most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities, had a population of 406,900 in 2014. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000. Bern is also the capital of the canton of Bern, the second-most populous of Switzerland's cantons.
The official language in Bern is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the most-spoken language is an Alemannic Swiss German dialect, Bernese German.
In 1983, the historic old town (in German: Altstadt) in the centre of Bern became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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