Why does Switzerland have cantons?

Good question, I don't know either.

>>79495258
Bosnia Herzegovina

>>79495258


>canton (n.) Look up canton at Dictionary.com
1530s, "corner, angle," from Middle French canton "piece, portion of a country" (13c.), from Italian (Lombard dialect) cantone "region," especially in the mountains, augmentative of Latin canto "section of a country," literally "corner" (see cant (n.2)). Originally in English a term in heraldry and flag descriptions; applied to the sovereign states of the Swiss republic from 1610s. Related: Cantoned.

I guess they speak French and Italian there?

>>79495258
Cantons are actually states. For the origin of the term canton, look up "cantons of Switzerland" in Wikipedia.

>>79495258
Why their population is so small?

>>79495821
Mountains

>>79495730
Damn, I actually forgot that word existed
When I was in primary school we used to play a game called quattro cantoni, that's the last time I used it I think

>>79497899
What was the game about?

>>79497941
Four people stand at the edges of a square and one in the middle
They have to move to the other edges in time
The one in the middle tries to reach an angle before the other person moving towards it

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>>79495730
>I guess they speak French and Italian there?

>>79498247
Germany dominating master race laguage.

>>79495258
maybe they have tons of cunts.

>>79498247
>indo-aryan languages (including tamil)