Bern (ceety)

The ceety o Bern or Berne (, ;  ;  ;  ; Bernese German: Bärn ) is the Bundesstadt (federal ceety, de facto caipital) o Swisserland, an, wi (as o ) a population o 131,000, the fowert maist populous ceety in Swisserland.http://www.bern.ch/leben_in_bern/stadt/statistik/in_kuerze  The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities,Stadt Bern : Medienmitteilung : 19 May 2003 : Eidgenössische Volkszählung 2000: Neue Definition der Agglomeration Bern (in German) haes a population o 349,000.Swiss Federal Statistical Office : Population Size and Population Composition : Agglomerations : Permanent Resident Population in Urban and Rural Areas The metropolitan aurie haed a population o 660,000 in 2000.   Bern is an aa the caipital o the Canton o Bern, the seicont maist populous o Swisserland's cantons.

The offeecial leid o Bern is German, but the main spoken leid is the Alemannic dialect cried Bernese German; maist residents o the ceety speak baith. Inglish an French are fairly widely spaken, but tae a lesser extent.
In 1983 the historic auld toun in the centre o Bern became a UNESCO Warld Heritage Sites, an Bern is ranked amang the warld’s tap ten ceeties for the best quality o life.Quality of Living global city rankings – Mercer survey

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Category:1191 establishments
Category:Cantonal caipitals o Swisserland
Category:Caipitals in Europe
Category:Ceeties in Swisserland
Category:Warld Heritage Steids in Swisserland
Category:Cultural property o naitional significance in the canton o Bern
Category:Swiss ceeties wi licht rail seestems
Category:Imperial free ceeties