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Isabel Pfaff, Berne
The word density stress is a Swiss invention, and with good reason. If you look closely, there isn’t that much space for the almost nine million inhabitants of Switzerland – with all the forests and lakes, large agricultural areas and of course the mountains. And so most of the Swiss crowd in the so-called Mittelland, the strip that stretches from Lake Constance in the north-east to Geneva in the south-west. It is densely populated here; The trend is rising, thanks to high levels of immigration.