Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 7 times smaller than Italy.
Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 13.7% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (52.6 million fewer people live in Switzerland).
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