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Which cantonal capital lies exactly on the language frontier between German and French and is bilingual?

Fribourg-Freiburg. Fribourg lies above the River Sarine which is considered as the proverbial 'fried potato ditch' which separates the French and German speaking parts of Switzerland

Which cantonal capital houses three parliaments and three governments?

Bern. As capital of Switzerland, Bern houses three parliaments and governments: communal, cantonal and federal. Thus Bern is known as the city of officials

Ticino is the only Italian speaking canton. Which is the name of its capital?

Bellinzona.

Which is the name of the capital of the biggest canton?

Chur. The Grisons is the biggest canton which also houses three of the four official languages of Switzerland: German, Romansh and Italian.

Losanen is the old Germanic (not used anymore) name of this canton capital. Which is the name used today?

Lausanne. In the 16th century Berne conquered the French speaking Vaud. They usually used Germanic versions of the French town names. There are rather terrible examples of Germanicized names: Montbeliard (fr) - Moempelgard (ge) {;)}

What is the second largest city of Switzerland?

Geneva.

Herisau is the capital of the Canton of _______.

Appenzell Ausserrhoden. Another example of half Cantons. The two Appenzells (A. Ausserrhoden and A. Innerrhoden) separated because the one converted to Lutheranism and the other stayed Roman Catholic.

There are three original Cantons which founded the Swiss Confederation back in 1291. Which one town is not capital of these three Cantons?

Lucerne. The three Cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden were the foundation members. Lucerne took only 40 years later part in the Confederation.

The River Aare flows through three Cantons before it meets the Rhine. Which one town is not capital of these three cantons?

Delemont. All of these three capitals, Bern, Solothurn and Aarau, lie at the river.

There are many capitals which have the same name as the Cantons. There are three below, which one is the odd one?

Aarau. Aarau is the capital of the AarGau!

This capital has been named after an Irish Saint who founded a monastery there.

St. Gallen. The Saint Gallus came in the 9th century and tried to convert the still partly heathen alemannic tribes to Christianism.

In Roman times some of the cities already existed. Which one of these four cantonal capitals did not exist in Roman times?

Bern. Bern has only founded in 1191 by the Duke of Zaehringia. The towns of Geneva, Zurich (Turicum) and Solothurn (Solodunum) are known since Roman times.

Which of these cities is considered one of the financial centres in Europe?

Zurich.

Which cantonal capital is host of the United Nations Organization?

Geneva. As host of many peace conferences Geneva was a natural choice for the second seat of the UNO after New York.

Which cantonal capital is also the seat of the IOC (hint Olympic Games)?

Lausanne.