Country size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of California vs. Switzerland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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