Swiss canton abbreviation
ID ch_canton_code
Pattern of ch_cantonNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Two-letter abbreviation of a Swiss canton, such as ZH (Zürich), BE (Bern) or TI (Ticino). It is used on vehicle plates and in ISO 3166-2:CH after CH-.
- Pattern of
- Swiss canton
ch_canton - Categories
- Geographic identifiers, Government related
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Languages
- not specified
- FTA
STATE_PROVINCE.CANTON_CH- Quality
- 100/100
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- FTA (Fast Text Analysis)
Regular expression
^(?:AG|AI|AR|BE|BL|BS|FR|GE|GL|GR|JU|LU|NE|NW|OW|SG|SH|SO|SZ|TG|TI|UR|VD|VS|ZG|ZH)$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| ZH | Zürich |
| GE | Geneva |
| TI | Ticino |
| CH invalid | the country code |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Сокращение кантона Швейцарии |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland
- other: https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ch_canton_code - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/CH/geo/ch_canton_code.yamlon GitHub