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Switzerland

Switzerland's Latin name, Confoederatio Helvetica, means Swiss Confederation. Its initials, CH, have marked Swiss cars abroad since 1909 and are now the country's code.

Five things to know about Switzerland

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the easy countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Switzerland, in the Alps, between France, Germany, Italy and Austria. See Switzerland on a map.
  2. It is famous for watches, chocolate, banks and a pyramid-shaped peak called the Matterhorn.
  3. It has not fought a war against another country since 1815.
  4. The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 at a physics laboratory on its border.
  5. Its coins and stamps carry the country's name in Latin, so that none of its four languages is favoured.

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