Zurich is located in northern Switzerland and sits along the banks of the picturesque Limmat River. The city is made up of 12 "Kreise" (the German word for circle, but meaning districts).

THE Phytogeographical Committee of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences has planned, and Dr. Emil Schmid prepared, a vagetation map of Switzerland to a scale of 1: 200,000 or about three miles to ...

Switzerland has a new tectonic map at a scale of 1:500,000. The TK500 contains updates to the geometry, distribution and nomenclature of the tectonic units of Switzerland and its neighboring areas.