Cantons
Valais Ticino Graubünden(Grisons) Geneva Vaud Neuchâtel Jura Bern Thurgau Zurich Aargau Lucerne Solothurn Basel-Land Schaffhausen Uri Schwyz Glarus St. Gallen AI AR Obwalden Nidwalden Zug Fribourg Basel-Stadt France Italy Liecht. Austria Germany
The abbreviations are widely used, e.g. on car license plates and as disambiguator for localities on postal addresses if two localities in different cantons have the same name.
The ISO 3166-2 codes of Switzerland start with the prefix "CH-", e.g. CH-SZ for the canton of Schwyz.
The FIPS region codes of Switzerland were used by the United States government. This standard was withdrawn in 2008.
The NUTS codes of Switzerland were used by the European Union.
| Canton | ISO 3166-2 | FIPS 10-4 | NUTS-3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aargau | AG | SZ01 | CH033 |
| Appenzell Innerrhoden | AI | SZ10 | CH054 |
| Appenzell Ausserrhoden | AR | SZ02 | CH053 |
| Berne | BE | SZ05 | CH021 |
| Basel-Landschaft | BL | SZ03 | CH032 |
| Basel-Stadt | BS | SZ04 | CH031 |
| Fribourg | FR | SZ06 | CH022 |
| Geneva | GE | SZ07 | CH013 |
| Glarus | GL | SZ08 | CH051 |
| Grisons | GR | SZ09 | CH056 |
| Jura | JU | SZ26 | CH025 |
| Lucerne | LU | SZ11 | CH061 |
| Neuchâtel | NE | SZ12 | CH024 |
| Nidwalden | NW | SZ13 | CH065 |
| Obwalden | OW | SZ14 | CH064 |
| St. Gallen | SG | SZ15 | CH055 |
| Schaffhausen | SH | SZ16 | CH052 |
| Solothurn | SO | SZ18 | CH023 |
| Schwyz | SZ | SZ17 | CH063 |
| Thurgau | TG | SZ19 | CH057 |
| Ticino | TI | SZ20 | CH070 |
| Uri | UR | SZ21 | CH062 |
| Vaud | VD | SZ23 | CH011 |
| Valais | VS | SZ22 | CH012 |
| Zug | ZG | SZ24 | CH066 |
| Zürich | ZH | SZ25 | CH040 |
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