query: headquarters_location postal telegraph and telephone 
supports: Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a federal republic in Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities. 
  The country is situated in Western-Central Europe, and is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of . While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately eight million people is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities are to be found: among them are the two global cities and economic centres Zürich and Geneva. PTT ( German : Post , Telefon und Telegraph , French : Postes , téléphones , télégraphes ) was the Swiss Postal Telegraph and Telephone agency , formed in 1970 . In the course of the international trend towards liberalisation of the telecommunications market , it was transformed into two public service companies on January 1 , 1998 , Swiss Post and Swisscom . While Swiss Post remained a government agency with a partial service monopoly , Swisscom became a competitor on a liberalised telecommunications market and is an Aktiengesellschaft of which the Confederation holds a majority of shares . The city of Bern or Berne (; Bernese German: "Bärn" ) is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their (e.g. in German) "Bundesstadt," or "federal city". With a population of 141,762 (November 2016), Bern is the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities, had a population of 406,900 in 2014. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000. Bern is also the capital of the canton of Bern, the second most populous of Switzerland's cantons. Swiss Post (, ) is the national postal service of Switzerland. A public company owned by the Swiss Confederation, it is the country's second largest employer (after the Federation of Migros Cooperatives). The group is based in Bern.
candidates: bern canton france geneva global italy switzerland
answer: bern