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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by jrflowers on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:37PM (#48450536)
If you increased Switzerland’s population density by 50% they’d be in a crowded hellhole like (checks notes) Belgium
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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by plqbfbv on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:50PM (#48450813)
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.

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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by jrflowers on Monday June 08, 2026 @04:20PM (#48451300)
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

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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by plqbfbv on Monday June 08, 2026 @05:52PM (#48452741)
Fair, I had a quick look, 600-700 is likely for the big cities areas.
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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by rayiner on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:58PM (#48450963)
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.
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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by incognito124 on Monday June 08, 2026 @06:17PM (#48453091)
https://sive.rs/4d
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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by rayiner on Monday June 08, 2026 @07:24PM (#48453855)
I was in Brussels and it sounds like it’s still a problem. https://www.reddit.com/r/belgium/comments/1dsoy9y/why_is_it_...
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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by ceejayoz on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:48PM (#48450765)
There are significant differences in terrain that make that comparison a bit tougher.
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