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Psychiatry in Switzerland
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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Switzerland - officially the Swiss Confederation - is a federal republic situated in central Europe. It covers an area of 41 287 km2 and has a population of just over 7 600 000. Switzerland consists of 26 federated states, of which 20 are called cantons and 6 are called half-cantons. German, French and Italian are Switzerland's major and official languages.
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