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swissBOUNDARIES3D cantonal boundaries

swissBOUNDARIES3D cantonal boundaries constitute the administrative borders of the Swiss cantons. The Swiss Confederation consists of 26 cantons which have the status of constituent states.swissBOUNDARIES3D cantonal boundaries is derived from the parent dataset swissBOUNDARIES3D.

Simple

Alternate title

Cantonal boundaries

Date (Revision)
2025-12-18
Date (Publication)
2026-01-01
Identifier
ch.swisstopo.swissboundaries3d-kanton-flaeche.fill

Point of contact

Federal Office of Topography swisstopo - geodata (Geodata Distribution)
Seftigenstrasse 264
Wabern
3084
CH
+41 58 469 01 11
+41 58 469 04 59 (facsimile)
http://www.swisstopo.ch

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
10000
Topic category
  • D Boundaries

Extent

Extent

Description

Switzerland

N
S
E
W








Extent

Extent

Description

Liechtenstein

N
S
E
W








Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
Maintenance note

swissBOUNDARIES3D is updated annually. Updating is based on the information of the Cadastral Surveying (CS) and the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Administrative units

geocat.ch
  • opendata.swiss

geocat.ch
  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

geocat.ch
  • canton

GEMET
  • administrative boundary

Resource constraints

Use constraints
License
Other constraints

NonCommercialAllowed-CommercialAllowed-ReferenceRequired

Associated resource

Association Type
Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
Metadata Reference
  • swissBOUNDARIES3D

Associated resource

Title

Administrative boundaries (national survey)

Association Type
Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Basic Geodata
true
Basic Geodata ID

39.3

Basic Geodata Legal Level
Federal
Included with dataset
false
Title

swissBOUNDARIES3D Grenzen schweizweit in 3D

Date (Publication)
2026-01-01
Other citation details

https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/content/swisstopo-internet/de/home/products/landscape/boundaries3d/_jcr_content/contentPar/tabs/items/dokumente/tabPar/downloadlist/downloadItems/21_1548159314551.download/2019_01_sBOUND_InfoD_barrierefrei.pdf

Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile (SHP)

  • ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)

  • AutoCAD DXF (DXF)

  • INTERLIS 2 (XTF)

  • OGC Geopackage (GPKG)

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch

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Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

ch.swisstopo.swissboundaries3d-kanton-flaeche.fill

WMS-FSDI service, layer "Cantonal boundaries"

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

ch.swisstopo.swissboundaries3d-kanton-flaeche.fill

WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Cantonal boundaries"

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/landschaftsmodell-swissboundaries3d

swissBOUNDARIES3D

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/landschaftsmodell-swissboundaries3d

Download server from geo.admin.ch

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

map.geo.admin.ch

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

RESTful API von geo.admin.ch

RESTful API from geo.admin.ch

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Linked Data

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Linked Data Dienst (via SPARQL)

Geometric object type
Curve
Geometric object type
Surface
Reference system identifier
EPSG:2056

Metadata

Metadata identifier
9eee6d40-f0a6-46c9-94ad-69679b9f3d38

Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Italiano
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Rumantsch
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Federal Office of Topography swisstopo - metadata (Metadata contact)
Seftigenstrasse 264
Wabern
3084
CH
+41 58 469 01 11
http://www.swisstopo.admin.ch
Hours of service

08h30 - 11h00 / 14h00 - 16h00 GMT+1

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/9eee6d40-f0a6-46c9-94ad-69679b9f3d38

Date info (Creation)
2011-10-20T16:21:42Z
Date info (Revision)
2026-04-13T09:17:48.231953Z

Metadata standard

Title

eCH-0271

 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET

administrative boundary
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Administrative units
geocat.ch

FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure canton opendata.swiss


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