Metropolitan region of Northern Switzerland
The metropolitan region of Northern Switzerland is a metropolitan region with its center in Switzerland . It includes German-speaking Switzerland , the Swiss canton of Jura, southern Alsace and the planning region Hochrhein-Bodensee in Baden-Württemberg . The metropolitan area is bipolar. The one pole around Basel is particularly strong in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and in the trade fair industry. The one around Zurichin the fields of financial services. Both are transport hubs with an international airport, university cities and have a high-quality cultural offering. Around 6,400,000 people live in the metropolitan region of Northern Switzerland, 5,400,000 of them in Switzerland.
The Federal Statistical Office has split from local political considerations, the region in which three, but already in 2004 clearly stated that only a division of Switzerland come from a spatial planning perspective in question as the European umbrella organization METREX suggests.