Bern (ceety)
The ceety o Bern or Berne (German: Bern, Template:IPA-de; French: Berne Template:IPA-fr; Italian: Berna Template:IPA-it; Template:Lang-rm Template:IPA-rm; Bernese German: Bärn Template:IPA-gsw) is the Bundesstadt (federal ceety, de facto caipital) o Swisserland, an, wi (as o Template:Swiss populations YM) a population o 131,000, the fowert maist populous ceety in Swisserland.[1] The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities,[2] haes a population o 349,000.[3] The metropolitan aurie haed a population o 660,000 in 2000.[1] Bern is an aa the caipital o the Canton o Bern, the seicont maist populous o Swisserland's cantons.
The offeecial leid o Bern is German, but the main spoken leid is the Alemannic dialect cried Bernese German; maist residents o the ceety speak baith. Inglish an French are fairly widely spaken, but tae a lesser extent. In 1983 the historic auld toun in the center o Bern became a UNESCO Warld Heritage Sites, an Bern is ranked amang the warld’s top ten ceeties for the best quality o life.[4]
[edit] References
- ↑ http://www.bern.ch/leben_in_bern/stadt/statistik/in_kuerze
- ↑ Stadt Bern : Medienmitteilung : 19 May 2003 : Eidgenössische Volkszählung 2000: Neue Definition der Agglomeration Bern (in German)
- ↑ Swiss Federal Statistical Office : Population Size and Population Composition : Agglomerations : Permanent Resident Population in Urban and Rural Areas
- ↑ Quality of Living global city rankings – Mercer survey
