Zurich
Switzerland
Zurich is Switzerland's largest city and the capital of the canton that shares its name. The city stands where Lake Zurich ends in the northwest, in the north-central part of the country. At the end of 2025 the city had 440,935 inhabitants, and the metropolitan area about 2.1 million (2020).
The Economist Intelligence Unit placed Zurich No. 2 in its Global Liveability Index 2025, sharing the rank with Vienna at an index score of 97.1. Monocle ranked it No. 6 in its Quality of Life Survey in both 2025 and 2026. Oxford Economics put it No. 10 in its Global Cities Index 2026. The passages from these outlets are ranking tables without further comment.
Settlement in the area goes back more than 6,400 years, and the town was founded by the Romans, who called it Turicum. In 1519 Zurich became a leading centre of the Protestant Reformation under Huldrych Zwingli. Today the city has Switzerland's biggest and busiest airport and railway station, and according to the Global Financial Centres Index 2026 the city leads continental Europe as a financial and insurance centre. It is also home to ETH Zurich, the Swiss National Museum, the Kunsthaus and the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
Sources of this text: Wikipedia · Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) · Monocle · Oxford Economics
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