Country size comparison

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Switzerland is about 31 times smaller than Peru.

Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 3.21% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (23.8 million fewer people live in Switzerland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Peru vs. Switzerland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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