Administrative Divisions
The Helvetic Republic reduced the formerly sovereign cantons to mere administrative districts, and in order to weaken the old power-structures, it defined new boundaries for some cantons. The act of 1798 and subsequent developments resulted in the following cantons:
- Aargau (without Baden and Fricktal)
- Baden
- Basel
- Bellinzona
- Bern (without Oberland)
- Fribourg
- Fricktal, added in 1802
- Léman (corresponding to Vaud)
- Linth
- Lugano
- Lucerne
- Oberland
- Raetia (corresponding to Graubünden/Grisons)
- Säntis
- Schaffhausen
- Solothurn
- Thurgau
- Waldstätten
- Valais
- Zürich
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