---
id: "ch_canton"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo", "government"]
country: ["CH"]
langs: ["de", "fr", "it"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ch_canton"
---

# Swiss canton (`ch_canton`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Name of one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland, such as Zürich, Bern or Ticino, in German, French, Italian or English. The two-letter abbreviation is the pattern ch_canton_code.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Government related (government)
- Countries: Switzerland (CH)
- Languages: German (de), French (fr), Italian (it)
- Classification: categorical
- Patterns: `ch_canton_code`

## Examples

- `Zürich`
- `Genève`
- `Ticino`

## Mappings

- fta: `STATE_PROVINCE.CANTON_NAME_CH`

## Supported by tools

- `fta`

## Translations

- ru: Кантон Швейцарии

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland>
- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: regexp, negative example.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ch_canton.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/CH/geo/ch_canton.yaml>