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Switzerland postal codes, places and regions
Browse postal-code records and administrative regions, with optional GeoNames Gazetteer enrichment.
Postal data availableGazetteer places available
- Place records
- 4,478
- Postal codes
- 3,362
- Named places
- 4,229
- Mapped records
- 4,478
- Shared codes
- 675
Snapshot-derived insight
How dense is this postal directory?
In the active ZipCodeGlobe postal snapshot, Switzerland contains 4,478 active place records across 3,362 distinct postal codes — about 1.33 place records per represented code. This describes dataset representation, not population or legal postal boundaries.
GeoNames country reference
Geographic context for Switzerland
Berncapital
CHFcurrency
41calling prefix
8,516,543countryInfo population field
GeoNames countryInfo postal format: ####. This is supporting reference metadata, not a postal-code record set.
Languages: de-CH,fr-CH,it-CH,rm · Neighbour codes: DE,IT,LI,FR,AT
GeoNames general Gazetteer
Major populated places
These are geographic place records, not postal-code records.
ZürichZurich · population field 415,367GenevaGeneva · population field 201,741BaselBasel-City · population field 177,595LausanneVaud · population field 139,111BernBern · population field 121,631WinterthurZurich · population field 111,840LuzernLucerne · population field 81,691Sankt GallenSaint Gallen · population field 75,833LuganoTicino · population field 63,185Biel/BienneBern · population field 55,120Zürich (Kreis 11)Zurich · population field 54,260Zürich (Kreis 3)Zurich · population field 46,018
Postal regions
Canton de Berne485 codes · 624 recordsCanton de Fribourg176 codes · 286 recordsCanton de Vaud338 codes · 487 recordsCanton du Valais175 codes · 326 recordsGenève63 codes · 96 recordsJura79 codes · 95 recordsKanton Aargau249 codes · 288 recordsKanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden26 codes · 27 recordsKanton Appenzell Innerrhoden7 codes · 16 recordsKanton Basel-Landschaft89 codes · 97 recordsKanton Basel-Stadt28 codes · 34 recordsKanton Glarus25 codes · 32 recordsKanton Graubünden274 codes · 315 recordsKanton Luzern138 codes · 165 recordsKanton Nidwalden15 codes · 21 recordsKanton Obwalden19 codes · 23 recordsKanton Schaffhausen36 codes · 41 recordsKanton Schwyz50 codes · 60 recordsKanton Solothurn122 codes · 150 recordsKanton St. Gallen196 codes · 231 recordsKanton Thurgau125 codes · 210 recordsKanton Uri27 codes · 29 recordsKanton Zug19 codes · 29 recordsKanton Zürich290 codes · 352 recordsNeuchâtel75 codes · 93 recordsTicino257 codes · 351 records
Popular postal starting characters
Source: GeoNames postal-code snapshot checked 2026-08-18. Postal data © GeoNames.org, CC BY 4.0. Accuracy codes belong to the source and are not a ZipCodeGlobe verification claim.