The France–Switzerland border is 572 km (355 mi) long. Its current path is mostly the product of the Congress of Vienna of 1815, with the accession of...
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The border between the modern states of Germany and Switzerland extends to 362 kilometres (225 mi), mostly following Lake Constance and the High Rhine...
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The border between the modern states of Switzerland and Italy extends for 744 kilometres (462 mi), from the French-Swiss-Italian tripoint at Mont Dolent...
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Swiss French (French: français de Suisse or suisse romand) is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy...
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The southern portion of the border, between Saint-Louis at the border with Switzerland and Lauterbourg, follows the River Rhine (Upper Rhine) in a south-to-north...
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French Republic has terrestrial borders with 10 sovereign states, 8 bordering Metropolitan France and 2 bordering the Overseas Departments of France,...
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The Brazil–France border is the line, located in the Amazon Rainforest, that limits the territories of Brazil and France. The border is located between...
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Hotel Arbez (category France–Switzerland border)
l’Arbézie, is a hotel that straddles the international border between France and Switzerland in the tiny village of La Cure, which is itself divided...
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km of border (prompting strong cross-border cooperation) and a language (French is one of Switzerland's four official languages). French-Swiss relations...
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Dreiländereck (Basel) (category France–Switzerland border)
Basel, Switzerland. It marks the tripoint where the borders of France, Germany and Switzerland meet. The France–Germany border, the Germany–Switzerland border...
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The France–Italy border is 515 km (320 mi) long. It runs from the Alps in the north, a region in which it passes over Mont Blanc, down to the Mediterranean...
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German territory close to the Swiss border. France There are a few railway lines crossing the France–Switzerland border, the most-frequented ones being...
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Jura Mountains (redirect from Swiss-French Jura)
long part of the French–Swiss border. While the Jura range proper ("folded Jura", Faltenjura) is located in France and Switzerland, the range continues...
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The Swiss Border Guard, known as the Swiss Border Guard Command (French: Corps des gardes-frontière, German: Grenzwachtkorps, Italian: Corpo delle guardie...
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Area Borders with EU members Austria–Switzerland border France–Switzerland border Germany–Switzerland border Italy–Switzerland border Switzerland officially...
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The Border Line defenses of Switzerland were constructed in the late 1930s in response to increasing tensions between Switzerland and its neighbours,...
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La Cure (category France–Switzerland border)
straddling the Franco-Swiss border. Administratively, the Swiss half of La Cure is part of the municipality of Saint-Cergue, while the French half is part of...
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Doubs (river) (redirect from Doubs River (France and Switzerland))
few kilometers north of the French-Swiss border, then to form the border for less distance, about 40 km. North of the Swiss town of Saint-Ursanne it turns...
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the southwest border with France is drawn through Lake Geneva. Switzerland is divided into 26 sovereign cantons. The cantons along the Swiss Plateau tend...
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EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg (category France–Switzerland border crossings)
in Blotzheim, France. The airport is located completely on French soil; it also has a Swiss customs border and is connected to the Swiss customs area by...
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Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France...
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exclave in the canton of Schaffhausen, northern Switzerland. Switzerland has one border with it and one border with the rest of Germany. Hong Kong is not sovereign...
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Treaty of Dappes (category France–Switzerland border)
was concluded on 8 December 1862 between France and the Swiss Confederation. Resolving a long-standing border dispute between the two countries, the accord...
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Basel (redirect from Basel, Switzerland)
point of France, Germany, and Switzerland; because it sits on the Swiss national border and is beyond the Jura Mountains, many within the Swiss military...
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The French invasion of Switzerland (German: Franzoseneinfall) occurred from January to May 1798 as part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The independent...
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Geneva Airport (category France–Switzerland border crossings)
within Swiss territory, however, its northern limit runs along the Swiss–French border and the airport can be accessed from both countries. The freight...
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Romandy (redirect from French-speaking part of Switzerland)
Romandy (French: Romandie or Suisse romande; Arpitan: Romandia) is the French-speaking historical and cultural region of Switzerland. In 2020, about 2...
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road, and, nowadays, completely unmarked. Italy/Switzerland border stone at Passo San Giacomo. Some borders were broadly defined by treaty, and surveyors...
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Mulhouse (redirect from Mulhouse, France)
a French city of the European Collectivity of Alsace (Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region of France). It is near the France–Switzerland border...
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Lake Geneva (category France–Switzerland border)
Geneva is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest...
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