Tell about Switzerland ?

When Calvinists banned jewelry from use in 1541, goldsmiths and jewelers in Geneva brainstormed the invention of watches, since a functional timepiece was acceptable.

Since then, it has proven to be one of the most successful industries of the country, reaching the present status as Switzerland's fourth largest exporter.

The Swiss know how to give quality variety.

Switzerland is home to 208 mountains over 3,000 meters high. What does that mean?

Plenty of hiking adventures and places to go be a hermit!

A beautiful experience that any in-shape hiker will love is the Chamonix-Zermatt Haute Route, a 12-day classic Alpine trek that will bring you straight to the well-recognized Matterhorn.

Switzerland is internationally known for its high quality chocolate. But do you know just how much chocolate is made there? Between the 18 Swiss chocolate companies.

172,376 tons of chocolate were made in year 2012. Residents help that number by eating approximately 10kg of chocolate annually. As a reference, get this.

There were 200,000 tons of steel used in the construction of the World Trade complex. Talk about a lot of chocolate!

Niesenbahn is the longest continuous-cable funicular in Europe, functioning since 1910.

You can ascend to the summit of the Neisen mountain in about 30 minutes with the coolest ride out there.

It may seem precarious but is really quite safe. And even better, the world's longest stairway with 11,674 steps, is right alongside the track—so if you really do want to take a hike, you can.

Switzerland is one of the only two countries to have a square flag – the Vatican has the only other square flag in the world. The Swiss flag is a red square with a white cross in the centre.

Switzerland is prepared for a nuclear war, if there ever was one – there are enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate its entire human population, due to laws that require everybody to have access to a shelter in their building or nearby.

Switzerland is slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey.

. Zurich and Geneva are among the top ten most livable cities in the world. They rank second and eighth on the list, respectively.

Switzerland’s main access points are wired to blow in case of an attack – one of the country’s defense strategies is to demolish every main road, bridge and railway access into Switzerland in case of a foreign invasion, with at least 3,000 locations around the country prepared to blow at a moment’s notice.

Coffee in Zurich is the most expensive in the world – costing an average CHF3.65 (USD 3.65) in the Coffee Price Index 2016, with Copenhagen, Basel, Bern and Geneva rounding out the top five respectively.

The Swiss franc is the official currency of Switzerland.

In Switzerland citizens can challenge any law passed by Parliament – provided they can gather 50,000 signatures against the law within 100 days. If succesful, a national vote is held and voters decide by a simple majority whether to accept or reject the law.

Switzerland boasts some of the world’s most famous inventions – they created Velcro, cellophane, the Swiss Army Knife, absinthe, the potato peeler, Helvetica font, LSD, muesli, edible chocolate gold and milk chocolate to name a few.

. Geneva, Switzerland is also home to the second-largest of the four major office sites of the United Nations.

Swiss consumption of chocolates per capital is the highest in the world. They have invented techniques like conching and tempering to help them produce world-class chocolates.

They were also pioneers in introducing bobsleigh, tobogganing and luge as a competitive sport to the world. Swiss scientists are also leading research in using LSD to treat mental illness and pain. Switzerland continues to lead the world in innovation, topping the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) ranking in 2017 for the seventh year in a row, ahead of the US (4th) and UK (5th).

Swiss men have the longest life expectancy in the world – in 2015 life expectancy at birth was 81.3 years for Swiss men and 85.3 years for Swiss women, according to World Health Organization (WHO).