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jrflowers 4 hours ago

If you increased Switzerland’s population density by 50% they’d be in a crowded hellhole like (checks notes) Belgium

plqbfbv 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, but while Belgium is basically a huge plain, Switzerland is 60% Alps.

If you account for that, the effective density of Switzerland on the usable area is 600–700 people/km².

jrflowers 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Looks like it’s 380 in the Swiss Plateau (you might be mixing up sq km and sq mi), which puts its at about ~70% of the population density of the Netherlands as a whole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Plateau

plqbfbv 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Fair, I had a quick look, 600-700 is likely for the big cities areas.

ceejayoz 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There are significant differences in terrain that make that comparison a bit tougher.

rayiner 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But Belgium does suck. I drove from Amsterdam to Paris in the early 2000s, and Belgium stuck out as being obviously worse (dirtier) than the other two.

incognito124 an hour ago | parent [-]

https://sive.rs/4d

rayiner 4 minutes ago | parent [-]

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