Municipalities of the canton of Zurich

There are 160 municipalities in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

In general, municipalities (German: Politische Gemeinden) in Switzerland are grouped in districts (Bezirke), their capital municipalities are written in bold letters.

Mergers of municipalities

There were no changes between 1934 and 2013, but as of December 2022^[update], there occurred in all nine mergers.

2014: Bertschikon bei Attikon and Wiesendangen → Wiesendangen
2015: Bauma and Sternenberg → Bauma^[1]^[2]
2016: Kyburg and Illnau-Effretikon → Illnau-Effretikon^[3]^[4]
2018: Hirzel and Horgen → Horgen^[5]
2018: Elgg and Hofstetten → Elgg
2019: Oberstammheim, Unterstammheim and Waltalingen → Stammheim
2019: Hütten, Schönenberg and Wädenswil → Wädenswil
2023: Adlikon, Andelfingen and Humlikon → Andelfingen

List of the municipalities

References

^ a b Bauma and Sternenberg merged to Bauma on 1 January 2015.
^ a b "Dossier Sternenberg" (in German). Zürcher Oberländer. Retrieved 2015-01-03.
^ a b "Adieu Kyburg!" (in German). kyburg.ch. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
^ a b "Nomenklaturen – Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz" (in German). bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
^ a b "Freude über das Ja zur Fusion" (in German). Zürichsee Zeitung. 2016-09-26. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
^ "Ständige und nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Geburtsort und Staatsangehörigkeit". bfs.admin.ch (in German). Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.

Notes

Partially based on the article in the German Wikipedia.

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