Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 3 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 33.76% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (10.9 million fewer people live in Switzerland).
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