The Confederation Helvetica or Switzerland is a located federal State in the center of Europe, without coasts in the sea. It has border with Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. The country has had a great tradition of political and military neutrality, reason for which is host of many international organizations. Its name is a derivation of the name of of the corners founders of the federation, Schwyz (in normative German: Schweiz). He is one of the richest and developed states of the world. The Swiss landscape is characterized by the Alps, a high mountainous chain that runs through the central and South zone of the country. Between the high tips of Swiss the Alps it is the Dufour Tip that reaches the 4,634 meters on the level of the sea. In the Dufour Tip even are numerous valleys and some with glaciers. From that place several of the main rivers of Europe emerge, among them the Rin, the Rhone, the Inn, the Aare and the Ticino, rivers that usually end at some lakes like for example the Lemán Lake, the Lake of Zúrich, Neuchâtel Lake and the Constanza Lake. As well, these and other lakes are of origin glacier, formed greatest in terminal moraines of old alpine glaciers.
The part of the north of Switzerland, the most populated, more is opened, but still she is moderately mountainous. The Swiss climate normally is tempered, but it can vary much depending on the locality, from the severe climate in high mountains to the pleasant Mediterranean climate in the South part. Switzerland has been influenced by several of the greater European cultures, from his you practice cultural to in the languages. In Switzerland there are four national languages (4 languages are spoken) and three official languages (the official communication): German in the north and center of the country (63.7%, yellow), French to the west (20.4%, purple), Italian to the south (6.5%, green) and one small minority speaks romanche (this language is national but nonofficial: one communicates with the authorities in German) in the corner of the Grisones