Country size comparison

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Switzerland is about 2 times smaller than Austria.

Austria is approximately 83,871 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 49.21% the size of Austria. Meanwhile, the population of Austria is ~8.9 million people (404,390 fewer people live in Switzerland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Austria vs. Switzerland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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