Country size comparison
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Switzerland is about 7 times smaller than Colorado.
Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 15.37% the size of Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~5.0 million people (3.5 million more people live in Switzerland).
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