Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Switzerland

Appenzell Ausserrhoden connects to 873 places across 14 topics through 42 Bunkabop connections, with religion and history accounting for the dominant share. The canton's most-shared co-place is neighboring Appenzell Innerrhoden, with Switzerland and Germany close behind. The two Appenzell half-cantons split along Protestant and Catholic lines in 1597 as a result of the Swiss Reformation, a divide that also shaped the region's ties to the Swabian League and its brief absorption into the canton of Säntis during the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803.

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