Switzerland

Facts

What the numbers say about Switzerland

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 410× the size of Switzerland.
• Switzerland ranks 96th of 237 by population but only 134th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 220 people per km², Switzerland is the 34th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 47°N is drawn about 2.1× too large in area, so Switzerland looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Switzerland's main territory stretches about 220 km north to south and 346 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 41,300 km² agrees with our measured area of 41,400 km², to within 2%.

How Switzerland measures up

Switzerland holds 0.2% of the land area and 1.2% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Western Europe it is the 4th largest of 9.

Where Switzerland sits

• Switzerland's centre lies at 46.8°N, 8.2°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 5,200 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 46°N to 48°N, about 220 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Switzerland had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Switzerland would have 51.9 million people. It has 9.1 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Switzerland would have 154,000 people. It has 9.1 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 3.0 million.

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