We just learned about the country of Vatican City.
Switzerland is another country in Europe!
![switzerland](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Europe-Switzerland.svg/571px-Europe-Switzerland.svg.png)
(from: wikipedia - switzerland)
For breakfast in Switzerland you might have a bowl of meusli,
a cereal invented there with oats grains nuts and fruits.
![meusli](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/%D0%9C%D1%8E%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8_%28cropped%29.jpg/605px-%D0%9C%D1%8E%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8_%28cropped%29.jpg)
(from: wikipedia - swiss cuisine)
There is a big invention called the large hadron collider that scientists built
in Switzerland to maybe help us understand how the universe works!
![large hadron collider](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Construction_of_LHC_at_CERN.jpg)
(from: wikipedia - large hadron collider)
In the old days people in the Swiss mountains used to use a big long horn
called the alphorn to talk to each other across the mountains.
![alphorn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Alphorn_player_in_Wallis.jpg/640px-Alphorn_player_in_Wallis.jpg)
(from: wikipedia - alphorn)
The mountain range running through Switzerland is called the Alps,
and in the alps is a famous mountain called the Matterhorn.
![matterhorn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Matterhorn_from_Domh%C3%BCtte_-_2.jpg/640px-Matterhorn_from_Domh%C3%BCtte_-_2.jpg)
(from: wikipedia - matterhorn)
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