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{{Infobox Swiss toun
 | subject_name = Zürich
 | municipality_name = Zürich
 | municipality_type = municipality
 | image_photo = City of Zürich.jpg 
 | image_caption= '''Top:''' Nicht view o Zurich frae [[Üetliberg]], '''Middle left:''' [[Swiss National Museum|National Museum]], '''Middle right:''' [[ETH Zurich|Swiss Federal Institute of Technology]], '''Bottom:''' View ower Zurich an the [[Lake Zurich|lake]].  
 | imagepath_coa = Wappen Zürich matt.svg
 | map = Karte Gemeinde Zürich.png
 | languages = German
 | canton = Zürich
 | iso-code-region = CH-ZH
 | district = [[Zürich (destrict)|Zürich]]
 | coordinates = {{coord|47|22|N|8|33|E|display=inline,title}}
 |lat_NS=N|long_EW=E
 | postal_code = 8000–8099
 | municipality_code = 0261
 | area = 91.88
 | elevation = 408|elevation_description=|lowest=[[Limmat]]|lowest_m=392|highest=[[Üetliberg]]|highest_m=871
 | population = 385,468|populationof = 2010
 | website = www.stadt-zuerich.ch
 | mayor = [[Corine Mauch]]|mayor_asof=2009|mayor_party=SPS
 | mayor_title = Stadtpräsidentin|list_of_mayors = List of mayors of Zurich
 | places =
 | neighboring_municipalities=  [[Adliswil]], [[Dübendorf]], [[Fällanden]], [[Kilchberg, Zurich|Kilchberg]], [[Maur, Switzerland|Maur]], [[Oberengstringen]], [[Opfikon]], [[Regensdorf]], [[Rümlang]], [[Schlieren, Zurich|Schlieren]], [[Stallikon]], [[Uitikon]], [[Urdorf]], [[Wallisellen]], [[Zollikon]]
 | twintowns = [[Kunming]], [[San Francisco]]
|}}
'''Zurich''' or '''Zürich''' ({{IPA-de|ˈtsyːrɪç}}; [[Alemannic German]]: ''Züri'', {{IPA-de|ˈtsyri|}}; {{lang-fr|Zurich}}, {{IPA-fr|zyʁik|}}) is the lairgest ceety in [[Swisserland]] an the caipital o the [[Canton o Zürich]]. It is locatit in central Swisserland<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/destinations/resorts/holiday-destinations-in-switzerland/zurich.html |title=Zurich entry at the Swiss Tourist Board |publisher=Myswitzerland.com |date= |accessdate=2010-07-03}}</ref> at the northwastren tip o [[Lake Zurich]]. While the municipality itsel haes approximately 390,000<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/stzh/prd/Deutsch/Statistik/Publikationsdatenbank/periodika/Bevoelkerung_Stadt_Zuerich/BEV_3Q_2011.pdf |title=Stadt-zuerich.ch |access-date=2012-04-11 |archive-date=2012-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314132235/http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/stzh/prd/Deutsch/Statistik/Publikationsdatenbank/periodika/Bevoelkerung_Stadt_Zuerich/BEV_3Q_2011.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> inhabitants, the [[Zurich metropolitan aurie]] is an urbanisit aurie o internaitional importance constitutit bi a population o nearly 2 million inhabitants.<ref>[http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/prd/en/index/stadtentwicklung/aussenbeziehungen/zuerich_regional/metropolitankonferenz.html The Zurich Metropolitan Area: a motor for Europe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309184032/http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/prd/en/index/stadtentwicklung/aussenbeziehungen/zuerich_regional/metropolitankonferenz.html |date=2012-03-09 }}, [http://stadt-zuerich.ch Stadt-zuerich.ch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040823014505/http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ |date=2004-08-23 }}. Retrieved on 2010-03-10</ref> Zurich is a mixed hub for railways, roads, an air traffic. Baith [[Zurich Airport]] an [[Zürich Hauptbahnhof|railway station]] are the lairgest an busiest in the kintra.

Permanently settled for aroond 7,000 years, the history o Zurich goes back tae its foondin bi the Romans, who, in 15 BC, cried it ''Turicum''. Durin the Middle Ages Zurich gained the independent an privileged status o [[imperial immediacy]] an, in 1519, wis the place o oreegin an centre o the [[Protestant Reformation]] in German-speakin Swisserland, led bi [[Ulrich Zwingli]].<ref>[http://www.zuerich.com/en/visitor/Experience/Attractions/Huldrych-Zwingli-Sight-details.html#details] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927222045/http://www.zuerich.com/en/visitor/Experience/Attractions/Huldrych-Zwingli-Sight-details.html#details |date=2013-09-27 }} zuerich.com.Huldrych-Zwingli</ref>

Zurich is a leadin [[global ceety]] an amang the warld's lairgest feenancial centres.<ref name="World's 10 Most Powerful Cities">[http://www.prlog.org/10438458-worlds-10-most-powerful-cities.html World's 10 Most Powerful Cities] prlog.org. Retrieved on 2010-03-10</ref> The ceety is hame tae a lairge number o financial institutions an bankin giants. An aw, maist o the research an development centres are concentratit in Zurich an the law rate o tax attracts owerseas companies tae set up their heidquarters there. Accordin tae several surveys frae 2006 tae 2008, Zurich wis namit the ceety wi the [[Warld's maist livable ceeties|best quality o life]] in the warld as well as the walthiest ceety in Europe.<ref name="Mercer07">{{cite web |url=http://www.mercer.com/referencecontent.htm?idContent=1173105 |title=2007 World-wide quality of living survey |accessdate=2008-08-08 |work=Mercer |date=2007-04-02 }}</ref><ref name="Mercer08">{{cite web |url=http://www.mercer.com/qualityofliving?siteLanguage=100 |title=Mercer's 2008 Quality of Living survey highlights |accessdate=2008-08-08 |work=Mercer |date=2008-06-10 }}</ref><ref name=Mercer09>
[[Mercer (consulting firm)|Mercer]] – [http://www.mercer.com/referencecontent.htm?idContent=1173105#Top_50_cities:_Quality_of_living Quality of Living global city rankings 2009 – Mercer survey], 28 April 2009
</ref>

An impressive number o museums an airt galleries can be foond in the ceety, includin the [[Swiss Naitional Museum]] an the [[Kunsthaus Zürich|Kunsthaus]].<ref>[http://www.zurich-relocation.ch/content/culture/museums_galleries.html Museums and galleries] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024052903/http://www.zurich-relocation.ch/content/culture/museums_galleries.html |date=2007-10-24 }} zurich-relocation.ch. Retrieved on 2010-03-10</ref> Zurich hosts ane o the maist important theatres in the German-speakin warld an aw.<ref>[http://www.worldtravelguide.net/city/138/culture/Europe/Zurich.html Zurich Culture] worldtravelguide.net. Retrieved on 2010-03-10</ref>

==Name==

The [[Swiss staundart German]] pronunciation o the name is {{IPA-de|ˈtsyːrɪç||de-Zürich.ogg}}. In [[Zurich German]] athoot the feenal consonant, ''Züri'' {{IPA|[ˈtsyɾi]}}, although the adjective remains ''Zürcher'' {{IPA|[ˈtsyrxər]}}.
The ceety is cried ''Zurich'' {{IPA-fr|zyʁik|}} in French, ''Zurigo'' {{IPA-it|dzuˈriːɡo|}} in Italian, an ''Turitg''  {{IPA|[tuˈritɕ]}}  in [[Romansh leid|Romansh]].

In Inglis an Scots, the name is uisually written ''Zurich'', athoot the [[umlaut (diacritic)|umlaut]]. It is pronooncit {{IPA-en|ˈzjʊərɪk|}} ({{Respell|ZEWR|ik}}) or {{IPA-en|ˈzʊərɪk|}} ({{Respell|ZOOR|ik}}); mair recently sometimes wi  {{IPA|/ts/}} as in German an aw.

The earliest kent form o the ceety's name is ''Turicum'', attestit on a [[tombstone]] o the late 2nt century AD in the form ''STA(tio) TURICEN(sis)'' ("Turicum tax post"). Neither the name's linguistic oreegin (maist likely [[Raetic leid|Rhaetic]] or [[Celtic leids|Celtic]]) nor its meaning can be determined wi certainty. A possibility is derivation frae ''*Turīcon'', frae the [[Gaulish]] [[Gaulish name|personal name]] ''Tūros''.<ref>[[Andres Kristol]], ''Zürich ZH (Zürich)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS|LSG)'', [[Centre de dialectologie]], [[University of Neuchâtel]], [[Verlag Huber]], [[Frauenfeld]]/[[Stuttgart]]/[[Wien]] 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1308-5 und [[Éditions Payot]], Lausanne 2005, ISBN 2-601-03336-3, p.&nbsp;992f.</ref> The stress on the lang vowel o the Gaulish name, {{IPA|[tuˈriːkon]}}, wis lost in German {{IPA|[ˈtsyːʁɪç]}} but is preservit in Italian ''Zurigo'' {{IPA|[dzuˈriːɡo]}}.

A first development towards its later, [[Germanic leids|Germanic]] form is attestit as early as the 6t century wi the form ''Ziurichi''. Frae the 10t century onward, the name haes mair or less clearly been established as ''Zürich'' (''Zurih'' (857), Zurich (924)).<ref>''Zürcher Ortsnamen – Entstehung und Bedeutung'', H. Kläuli, V. Schobinger, [[Zürcher Kantonalbank]] (1989), p. 109.</ref>

Zurich is sometimes referred tae as "Downtown Swisserland" for publicity raisons.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Visiting_Zurich_-_the_village.html?cid=14282 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-04-11 |archive-date=2012-08-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806051408/http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Visiting_Zurich_-_the_village.html?cid=14282 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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