---
id: "ch_bfs_bezirk"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo", "government"]
country: ["CH"]
langs: ["de", "fr", "it"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ch_bfs_bezirk"
---

# Swiss district number (BFS) (`ch_bfs_bezirk`)

> **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.

Number of a district (Bezirk, district, distretto) in the official register of Swiss municipalities of the Federal Statistical Office (BFS/OFS), three or four digits, as in 101 and 110 for districts of the canton of Zürich.

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

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{3,4}$
```

## Examples

- `101` — District in the canton of Zürich
- `110` — District in the canton of Zürich
- `12` (invalid example) — Two digits

## Translations

- de: BFS-Bezirksnummer

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Switzerland>
- doc: <https://www.agvchapp.bfs.admin.ch/>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

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