Switzerland
By:Dallya Hashem
Introduction
Regional/ World Map
Physical Map
This maps shows all of the geography like Switzerland's rivers, mountains, and more! Some examples of these are Lake Constance, Berner Alpen and Lake Como. Lake Constance is located at the very top of Switzerland, Berner Alpen is located in the lower part of Switzerland, and Lake Como is located at the very bottom of Switzerland.
Major Cities Map
Geography/ Travel
Switzerland's climate is winters are cold and and summers are hot. Also, in the mountain areas, the temperature drops. The normal high in Switzerland's temperature in Bern is 56 and the low is 40 in fahrenheit.
The most popular city in Switzerland is Zurich or the federal state of Zurich. I think this because Zurich has a population over 376,990 and the federal state of Zurich's population is 1,242,000. The reason why people live in Zurich is because it is the economic center of Switzerland. To get to Zurich or even Berne, people use the Alps because there are lots of other cities on the other side. They do this by using the Alpine railway routes.
Government/Foreign Policy
Citizens that live in Switzerland have similar rights as the U.S. like voting rights and being responsible for being a good citizen. Also, Switzerland and the U.S. are both federal governments. Both they do have some differences. The major one is that they have different opinions on gun control.
Switzerland does not have much interaction with other countries at all. This is because they don't want to jeopardize their neutrality.
Economy
The GDP per capita is usually about 84,815.41. Comparing this number to the U.S. GDP per capita (53,041.98) I think my country is a very wealthy country since Switzerland is almost double of the U.S. GDP per capita.
Social/Ethnic Groups
Women in Switzerland didn't have too many rights especially when there was a long debate about voting. As for children's rights, they also didn't have the best rights and there were a lot of debates on what rights they should have. But besides voting, men and women have the same basic rights. Like I said before, 99% of both men and women know how to read and write. After knowing this information, I can conclude that women are treated fairly in Switzerland. Also, after knowing the information about the ethnic groups, I can see that Germany is the majority of the ethnic groups. There ethnic groups have fought about things like if Switzerland is a multilingual or a multi-cultural policy.
Religion and Language
Country Flag
Traditional Holidays or Festivals, Traditional Clothing, and Food
Rachlette Recipe
Traditional Raclette Recipe
This simple raclette recipe should be the first you try on your raclette grill or raclette melter. For 4 Persons.
- 8 small/medium potatoes
- 1.5 lb. Raclette Cheese
- Buendnerfleisch (cut in paper thin slices)
- 1 jar pickled gherkin cucumbers (cornichons)
- 1 jar pickled onions
- freshly ground pepper
- paprika