Bern is a canton of what 26-member group?
Cantons of Switzerland The 26 cantons of Switzerland (German: "Kanton" , French: "canton" , Italian: "cantone" , Romansh: "chantun" ) are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the Waldstätte. Two further major steps in the development of the Swiss cantonal system are referred to by the terms "Acht Alten Orte" ("confederation of eight"; between 1353 and 1481) and "Dreizehn Alten Orte" ("Thirteen-Canton Confederation", during 1513–1798); they were important intermediate periods of the Ancient Swiss Confederacy.
Canton of Fricktal Fricktal was a canton of the Helvetic Republic from February 1802 to February 1803, consisting of that part of the Breisgau (in Habsburg Further Austria) south of the Rhine ("the Fricktal"). Now, the territories of Fricktal form the districts of Rheinfelden and Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau.