Country size comparison

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Democratic Republic of the Congo is about 57 times bigger than Switzerland.

Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Democratic Republic of the Congo is approximately 2,344,858 sq km, making Democratic Republic of the Congo 5,581% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (99.9 million more people live in Democratic Republic of the Congo).
This to-scale comparison of Switzerland vs. Democratic Republic of the Congo uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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