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  Zurich

  noun

  a canton in N Switzerland. 668 sq. mi. (1,730 sq. km).
• Zürich
  Zürich

  noun

  a canton of NE Switzerland: mainly Protestant and German-speaking. Capital: Zürich. Pop: 342 500 (2002 est). Area: 1729 sq km (668 sq miles)

Zurich

American  

[zoor-ik] / ˈzʊər ɪk /

noun

1. a canton in N Switzerland. 668 sq. mi. (1,730 sq. km).

2. the capital of this canton, on the Lake of Zurich.

3. Lake of, a lake in N Switzerland. 25 miles (40 km) long; 34 sq. mi. (88 sq. km).

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Zürich British  

/ ˈtsyːrɪç, ˈzjʊərɪk /

noun

1. a canton of NE Switzerland: mainly Protestant and German-speaking. Capital: Zürich. Pop: 342 500 (2002 est). Area: 1729 sq km (668 sq miles)

2. a city in NE Switzerland, the capital of Zürich canton, on Lake Zürich: the largest city and industrial centre in Switzerland; centre of the Swiss Reformation; financial centre. Pop: 336 821 (1999 est)

3. a lake in N Switzerland, mostly in Zürich canton. Area: 89 sq km (34 sq miles)

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Zurich Cultural  

1. Largest city in Switzerland, situated in the northern part of the country.

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The country's commercial hub and the intellectual center of the German-speaking part of Switzerland, Zurich is known as a world banking center.

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So when the company recently welcomed investors to its Zurich headquarters, Coppetti knew what they were thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Stem cell transplants may be able to repair damage caused by stroke, according to researchers at the University of Zurich.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

On the way to Zurich, David stops in London to visit his daughter and grandson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Thursday's meet in Zurich is the penultimate Diamond League event of the season, with the final to take place in Brussels over two days on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 September.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

On the afternoon of December 18, 1944, in Zurich, Switzerland, Berg was a Swiss student, curious to hear a lecture by the great German physicist Werner Heisenberg.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

"In principle, it could be used to cure any disease," says Jacob Corn, Professor of Genome Biology at ETH Zürich.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024

“It’s just this cute little project which became much bigger than we expected,” said Florian Kogelbauer, an author on the paper and a mechanical engineering professor at the public university ETH Zürich.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2024

In 2020, bioinformatician André Kahles, computer scientist Gunnar Rätsch, both at ETH Zürich, and their colleagues presented an early version of MetaGraph.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 5, 2024

To step inside the elaborate staging, which originated at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, in Switzerland, was to plunge headlong into a lovingly prepared yet scrappy version of Tolkien’s fantasy world.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

Calvinism was best represented in Switzerland, as finally expressed in the Formula Consensus Helvetica of Heidegger of Zürich, adopted in a.d.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz