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Municipal boundaries - journey through time
The layer municipal boundaries constitute the administrative borders of the municipalities of Switzerland and the principality of Liechtenstein. The municipality is the smallest administrative unit. By default, the current status of municipal boundaries is displayed. With the historical data representation tool - called " journey through time - the evolution of municipal boundaries from 1850 to the present day is interactive. When a year prior to the current status is selected, the status of municipal boundaries on the first of January is displayed. For the current status, mergers of municipalities during the year are included. Two data sources have been used to generate this layer: "Municipal boundaries: time series since 1850s" from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office for the period 1850 - 2015 and swissBOUNDARIES3D from the Swiss Federal Office of Topography for the period 2016 to the present.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
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Municipal boundaries
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-04-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-04-06
- Citation identifier
- ch.swisstopo.swissboundaries3d-gemeinde-flaeche.fill
- Collective title
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Administrative boundaries (national survey)
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
- Position name
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Geodata Distribution
- Voice
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+41 58 469 01 11
- Facsimile
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+41 58 469 04 59
Address
- City
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Wabern
- Postal code
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3084
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
- Streetname
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Seftigenstrasse
- Streetnumber
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264
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- Last Name
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geodata
- Organisation Acronym
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swisstopo
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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BFS/OFS GEOSTAT
- Position name
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GEOSTAT is the centre of competence for geoinformation and digital image processing within the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.
Address
- City
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Neuchâtel
- Postal code
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2010
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
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geostat@bfs.adm geostat@bfs.admin.ch
- Streetname
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Espace de l'Europe
- Streetnumber
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10
- Post box
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2010
- Website
- https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/dienstleistungen/geostat.html ( WWW:LINK )
- Role
- Resource provider
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Maintenance note
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Updating is based on information provided by the Cadastral Survey (CS) and the Federal Statistical Office. swissBOUNDARIES3D is always fully updated at the beginning of the year. When municipality fusions take place during the year, swisstopo will publish a special update as soon as possible. In this case, the special edition of swissBOUNDARIES3D includes only selective adjustments related to the fusion.
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Administrative units
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geocat.ch
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opendata.swiss
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INSPIRE
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GEMET
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municipality
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geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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GEMET
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administrative boundary
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- Other constraints
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NonCommercialAllowed-CommercialAllowed-ReferenceRequired
- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
- 86cb844f-296b-40cb-b972-5b1ae8028f7c
- Association Type
- Larger work citation
- Aggregate Datasetindentifier
- 5302e4a5-fbea-4e04-a9bd-8955bb73ab05
- Association Type
- Larger work citation
- Denominator
- 10000
- Language
- Deutsch
- Language
- Français
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- D Political and Administrative Boundaries
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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Extent
- Description
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Liechtenstein
))
- Basic geodata identifier
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39.3
- Basic geodata identifier type
- Federal
- Distribution format
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
()
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ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)
()
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
()
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INTERLIS 2 (XTF)
()
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
()
- OnLine resource
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Preview map.geo.admin.ch
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MAP:Preview
)
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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ch.swisstopo.swissboundaries3d-gemeinde-flaeche.fill
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OGC:WMS
)
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Municipal boundaries"
- OnLine resource
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ch.swisstopo.swissboundaries3d-gemeinde-flaeche.fill
(
OGC:WMTS
)
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Municipal boundaries"
- OnLine resource
- swissBOUNDARIES3D ( WWW:LINK )
- OnLine resource
- Download page ( WWW:DOWNLOAD )
- OnLine resource
- Municipal boundaries: time series since 1850 ( CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal )
- OnLine resource
- Linked Data ( LINKED:DATA:RDF )
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
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ESRI:REST
)
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
- Linked Data Service (using SPARQL) ( WWW:LINK )
- Geometric object type
- Curve
- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Content Information
- Included with dataset
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-04-06
- Model type
- INTERLIS 2
Metadata
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-12-17T06:52:05.228Z
- Metadata standard name
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GM03 2+
Metadata author
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
- Position name
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Metadata contact
- Voice
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+41 58 469 01 11
Address
- City
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Wabern
- Postal code
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3084
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
- Streetname
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Seftigenstrasse
- Streetnumber
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264
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Hours of service
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08h30 - 11h00 / 14h00 - 16h00 GMT+1
- Role
- Point of contact
- Last Name
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metadata
- Organisation Acronym
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swisstopo
