Bern

Switzerland

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Bern or Berne (German: Bern, Alemannic German: Bärn, French: Berne, Italian: Berna [ˈbɛrna], Romansh: Berna) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) Bundesstadt, or "federal city". With a population of 142,656 (March 2018), Bern is the fifth-most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities, had a population of 406,900 in 2014. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000. Bern is also the capital of the canton of Bern, the second-most populous of Switzerland's cantons. [Source Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne,_Switzerland).