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    Cars in a foreign country will have a sticker to identify the country they come from, e.g. GB if they are from Britain. What country does CH stand for?

    Question #75244. Asked by crazycube. (Jan 31 07 8:28 AM)


    skysmom65

    		CH,
    Switzerland (country code, top level domain)http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=CH&String=exact&p=ol

    Jan 31 07, 8:31 AM
    Baloo55th

    		In case anyone's wondering why Switzerland uses CH, which doesn't relate to the name of the country in any of the national languages, it comes from Confederatio Helvetica, which means Swiss Confederation in Latin. Chosen to avoid seeming bias to any of the languages spoken there, and because Switzerland is a federation of cantons (small states) which have a much greater degree of independence than the German Lander or the states of the USA. (Switzerland in Romansch is La Svizra, by the way.)

    Jan 31 07, 10:34 AM

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