Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 10 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making
Switzerland 10.22% the size of California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(28.7 million fewer people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Switzerland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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