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Last update:
15/11/2006

SWISSTOPO MAPS

swisstopo (the Swiss Federal Office of Topography) is world famous for the quality of its official map series. swisstopo's shaded reliefs contribute to this fame.

The map presented below is a "mute" map, i.e., the map only contains a colored relief shading with hydrographic features, but no other topographic or thematic features.

Southern French Alps by swisstopo

"Charta naziunala da la Svizra e dals pajais vischins" (section from the southern French alps) 1:1,000,000 © swisstopo.

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