Country size comparison

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Switzerland is about 43 times smaller than Libya.

Libya is approximately 1,759,540 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 2.35% the size of Libya. Meanwhile, the population of Libya is ~7.1 million people (1.4 million more people live in Switzerland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Libya vs. Switzerland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Switzerland to Libya · UN DESA 2020
993 people born in Switzerland live in Libya.
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