Alberta (Canada) is 16 times larger than Switzerland.
Area: 41,277 km2 World Factbook
Population: 8,061,516 (July 2014) World Factbook
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a federal parliamentary republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities, the so-called Bundesstadt. Wikipedia
Alberta is a province of Canada. With a population of 3,645,257 in 2011 and an estimated population of 4,082,571 as of January 1, 2014, it is Canada's fourth-most populous province and most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces. Wikipedia