Country size comparison

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Niger is about 31 times bigger than Switzerland.

Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, making Niger 2,970% larger than Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (16.0 million more people live in Niger).
This to-scale comparison of Switzerland vs. Niger uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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