CountriesSwitzerlandRank 20 of 9810 words8 placesSwitzerland10 English words in this atlas point back to Switzerland, spread across 8 places.ShareWordThe placeRelationshipConfidenceGruyèreThe cheese is named for a small town in Fribourg.GruyèresFrom its productWell attestedOerlikonThe anti-aircraft gun is named for a Zurich suburb.OerlikonFrom the placeWell attestedSwiss cheeseThe holes made a country into a cheese.SwitzerlandFrom its peopleWell attestedgnome of ZürichA British cabinet minister coined it in one bad night of a sterling crisis.ZurichFrom the placeWell attestedLucerne hammerNamed after the arsenal where the surviving examples happened to be stored.LucerneFrom the placeProbableSwiss bank accountSwiss secrecy became law in 1934 and was largely dismantled by 2018.SwitzerlandFrom its peopleWell attestedDavos ManA magazine coined it as praise; a Harvard political scientist turned it into an accusation.DavosFrom the placeWell attestedfianeliteA single small Alpine manganese mine produced a vanadate found nowhere else.Val FerreraFrom the placeWell attestedgrimseliteIt was found inside a hydroelectric cable tunnel bored through the Bernese Alps.Grimsel PassFrom the placeWell attestedhelvetaneA chemist drew two molecules shaped like national flags and named them after the countries.SwitzerlandFrom the placeWell attestedElsewhere in the atlasUnited States153United Kingdom108Italy63France57Germany29Greece29Canada22Turkey22People's Republic of China21Spain20Japan18India16Mexico13Belgium12All 98 countries →