former canton of Switzerland

C30106
concept

A former canton of Switzerland is a historical administrative region that once functioned as a semi-autonomous member state within the Swiss Confederation but has since been dissolved, merged, or reorganized.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
former canton of Switzerland canonical 3
former Swiss canton 2
former canton-level community 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: former canton of Switzerland
Generated description
A former canton of Switzerland is a historical administrative region that once functioned as a semi-autonomous member state within the Swiss Confederation but has since been dissolved, merged, or reorganized.

Instances (7)

Instance Via concept surface
Canton of Basel former Swiss canton
Unterwalden
Appenzell
City of Uri former Swiss canton
City of Unterwalden former canton-level community
Canton of Bernese Oberland
Drei Bünde predecessor of Swiss canton