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Designation (also Eastern Switzerland) for the regions and areas of Switzerland with a predominantly German-speaking population. These are the Central Plateau, Northwestern Switzerland, Eastern Switzerland and Central Switzerland as well as large parts of the Swiss Alps, which together cover around two thirds of the country's surface area. In terms of wine law, it is one of the six Swiss wine regions with the 17 German-speaking cantons. The wine-growing cantons with vineyards (some with only a few hectares) are Aargau, Basle Country, Bern (Lake Thun), Glarus, Graubünden, Lucerne, Nidwalden, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thurgau and Zurich.

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