Country size comparison

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Algeria is about 58 times bigger than Switzerland.

Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 5,670% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (35.7 million more people live in Algeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Switzerland vs. Algeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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