Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 10 times bigger than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 878% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (28.7 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Switzerland
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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