About Bern - Switzerland
The city of Bern or Berne is the Bundesstadt (federal city, de facto capital) of Switzerland, and, with a population of 137,919 (as of May 2013),is the fifth most populous city in Switzerland.The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities,[5] has a population of 356,000.The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000.Bern is also the capital of the Canton of Bern, the second most populous of Switzerland's cantons.