Regions Of Switzerland
The geography of Switzerland features a mountainous and landlocked country located in Western Europe, Western and Central Europe. Switzerland's natural landscape is marked by its numerous List of lakes of Switzerland, lakes and List of prominent mountains of Switzerland, mountains. It is surrounded by five countries: Austria and Liechtenstein to the east, France to the west, Italy to the south and Germany to the north. Switzerland has a maximum north–south length of and an east–west length of about . Switzerland is well known for the Swiss Alps, Alps in the south and south east. North of the Alps, the Swiss Plateau runs along the east–west axis of the country. Most of the population of Switzerland lives on the rolling hills and plains of the Swiss Plateau, plateau. The smaller Jura Mountains are located on the north west side of the plateau. Much of the northern border with Germany follows the Rhine, though the Rhine enters Switzerland near Schaffhausen. The eastern borde ...
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Land Borders
Borders are generally defined as geography, geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by polity, political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other administrative division, subnational entities. Political borders can be established through warfare, colonization, or mutual agreements between the political entities that reside in those areas. Some borders—such as most states' internal administrative borders, or inter-state borders within the Schengen Area—are open border, open and completely unguarded. Most external political borders are partially or fully controlled, and may be crossed legally only at designated border checkpoints; adjacent Border control#Border zones, border zones may also be controlled. For the purposes of border control, airports and Port#Seaport, seaports are also classed as borders. Most countries have some form of border control to regulate or limit the movement of people, animals ...
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