Switzerland, summer Switzerland is an inland state and Alpine country with an area of 41,284 km² and about 8.6 million inhabitants (2019). Administratively, it is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons. Switzerland officially has no capital, but Bern fulfils that role in practice and is referred to as the 'federal city'. It is also the seat of the federal government since the creation of the federal state in 1848.[5] Switzerland has a history of neutrality: at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the country's perpetual neutrality was recognised by the European powers. It is not a member of the European Union, but its economy is strongly intertwined with that of the EU. According to tradition, the Old Oath Society - a confederation that was the forerunner of today's federal state of Switzerland - originated in the 13th century from the Bondsbrief of 1291, an agreement between the three "primordial cantons". Although this gives the country a long history as an independent state, Swiss culture is strongly influenced by that of neighbouring Germany, France and Italy. German, French and Italian are all three official languages in Switzerland, as is Rhaeto-Romanic. The country's 'neutral' name is the Latin name Confœderatio Helvetica (CH).
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