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The Swiss canton of Bern has about 947,000 people. The canton is in west-central Switzerland and the city of Bern is its capital.
Districts
[change | change source]As of April 2004, there are 398 municipalities of the canton of Bern within the following 26 administrative districts:
- Aarberg with capital Aarberg
- Aarwangen with capital Aarwangen
- Bern with capital Berne
- Biel with capital Biel
- Büren with capital Büren an der Aare
- Burgdorf with capital Burgdorf
- Courtelary with capital Courtelary
- Erlach with capital Erlach
- Fraubrunnen with capital Fraubrunnen
- Frutigen with capital Frutigen
- Interlaken with capital Interlaken
- Konolfingen with capital Konolfingen
- Laupen with capital Laupen
- Moutier with capital Moutier
- La Neuveville with capital La Neuveville
- Nidau with capital Nidau
- Niedersimmental with capital Wimmis
- Oberhasli with capital Meiringen
- Obersimmental with capital Blankenburg
- Saanen with capital Saanen
- Schwarzenburg with capital Schwarzenburg
- Seftigen with capital Belp
- Signau with capital Langnau im Emmental
- Thun with capital Thun
- Trachselwald with capital Trachselwald
- Wangen with capital Wangen an der Aare
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Canton of Bern.
- Official website (in German and French)
- Official statistics
- Berner Oberland Tourism Archived 2008-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
- Biel/Bienne and Seeland Tourism Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Bernese Jura Tourism