Country size comparison
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Maldives is about 139 times smaller than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.72% the size of Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~9.1 million people (8.6 million fewer people live in Maldives).
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