Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 1.7 times smaller than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 58.74% the size of Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (3.2 million more people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Switzerland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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