Country size comparison

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Switzerland is about 8 times smaller than Norway.

Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 12.75% the size of Norway. Meanwhile, the population of Norway is ~5.6 million people (3.0 million more people live in Switzerland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Norway vs. Switzerland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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