3/ The country ๐จ๐ญ has 4 official languages: German, French, Italian, and Romansh. Hence the ISO code "CH" from the Latin (and thus neutral) *Confoederatio Helvetica*.
The language regions are plotted below, highlighting the mountainous topography and population spread.
Romansh is estimated to have roughly 50k speakers.
Swiss-German has many different regional words, and is **challenging** for speakers of "high" German ๐ฉ๐ช. Swiss-Germans are often subtitled on German television.
4/ Interestingly from a geopolitical perspective, Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ is a Directorial Republic (one of only three in the world, the others being San Marino ๐ธ๐ฒ and Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ง๐ฆ)
A federal cabinet serves as collective head of state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_(Switzerland)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorial_system
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