There are 162 municipalities in the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
In general, municipalities (German: Politische Gemeinden) in Switzerland are grouped in districts (Bezirke), their capital municipalities are written in bold letters.
Mergers of municipalities
There were no changes between 1934 and 2013, but as of December 2016, there occurred in all four mergers as per 1 January 2014, 1 January 2015, 1 January 2016 and 1 January 2017.
- 2014: Bertschikon bei Attikon and Wiesendangen → Wiesendangen[1][2]
- 2015: Bauma and Sternenberg → Bauma[3][4]
- 2016: Kyburg and Illnau-Effretikon → Illnau-Effretikon[5][6]
- 2018: Hirzel and Horgen → Horgen[7]
- 2018: Elgg and Hofstetten → Elgg
- 2019: Oberstammheim, Unterstammheim and Waltalingen → Stammheim
- 2019: Hütten, Schönenberg and Wädenswil → Wädenswil
- planned: Adlikon, Andelfingen, Henggart, Humlikon, Kleinandelfingen and Thalheim an der Thur
List of the municipalities
There are listed the names of all the 171 municipalities as of 2013, i.e. before the four mergers in the modern history of the canton of Zürich occurred.