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Canton of Ticino

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Summary

Canton of Ticino is a canton of Switzerland[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of canton of switzerland entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,121 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Switzerland[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Capital: Bellinzona[5]
  • Official language: Italian[6]
  • Shares border with: Canton of the Grisons[7], Canton of Uri[8], Canton of Valais[9], Piedmont[10], Lombardy[11], Province of Como[12], Province of Varese[13], Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola[14]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Bellinzona District[15], Blenio District[16], Leventina District[17], Locarno District[18], Lugano District[19], Mendrisio District[20], Riviera District[21], Vallemaggia District[22]
  • Legislative body: Grand Council of Ticino[23]
  • Part of: Ticino[24], Italian Switzerland[25]
  • Commons category: Canton of Ticino[26]
  • Licence plate code: TI[27]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+01:00[28], UTC+02:00[29]
  • Archives at: State Archives of the Canton of Ticino[30]
  • Inception: 1803[31]
  • Highest point: Rheinwaldhorn[32]
  • Official website: https://www.ti.ch/[33]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ticino[34]
  • Commons gallery: Canton Ticino[35]
  • Population: 353,343[36], 357,720[37], 358,903[38]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Canton of Ticino[39]
  • Number of seats: 2[40]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[41], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[42], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[43], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[44]
  • Replaces: Canton of Lugano[45]
  • Official name: Ticino[46]
  • List of monuments: list of cultural properties in Ticino[47], list of cultural property of national significance in Switzerland: Ticino[48]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in the canton of Ticino[49]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Canton of Ticino include pane ticinese[50].

Why It Matters

Canton of Ticino has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] It is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]

Entities named for it include pane ticinese[50].

Related Entities

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  34. [36] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. Retrieved . bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [50] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [51] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [52] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13w ago · Yorwba · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Locator map image → Karte Kanton Tessin 2017.png
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  2. 19w ago · Watmildon · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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