Country size comparison
compared to
Australia is about 188 times bigger than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 18,654% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (17.6 million more people live in Australia).
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