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Basel (Basel German [ˈbɐːsə̆l], Standard German [ˈbɑːzəl], French Bâle, Italian Basilea, Romansh Basileaⓘ/?) is a major Swiss city and the capital of the canton of Basel-Stadt, which also includes the municipalities of Riehen and Bettingen. With 173,552 inhabitants, Basel is the third largest city in Switzerland after Zurich and Geneva[5].

Basel is considered the cultural capital of Switzerland[6][7] With almost forty museums throughout the canton and a wide range of cultural offerings, Basel is famous for its numerous world-class art and cultural institutions, which also makes the city one of the largest cultural centers in Europe in relation to its size and population. The city's art museum exhibits what is generally considered to be the most important public art collection in Switzerland[8] and, together with the "Amerbach Cabinet" acquired by the city in 1661, is the oldest publicly accessible art museum in the world[9].

Founded in 1460, the University of Basel is the oldest in Switzerland and one of the oldest in Europe. Over the centuries, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Jaspers, the Nobel Prize winner Tadeus Reichstein and the philosopher Jeanne Hersch, among others, have taught and researched at the university.[10] The first Zionist Congress was also held in Basel in 1897 under the leadership of Theodor Herzl. In total, the congress was held ten times in the city on the Rhine bend until the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, more often than in any other city in the world.[11]
Together with its Palatinate, Basel Minster forms the historic center of the city on the Rhine bend

Basel is a world-leading center for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, a world-renowned trade fair center and an important banking center; the Bank for International Settlements has its global headquarters in Basel. The same applies to the two pharmaceutical companies Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche and the insurance company Bâloise Holding.

In 2019, the management consultancy firm Mercer ranked Basel alongside Zurich and Geneva as one of the ten cities with the highest quality of life in the world[12].