Why is the partition so small / half it's size?

Dear forum,

I successfully installed Catalina for the first time. Only have been using Mojave an earlier versions. I partitioned the SSD and the installation went just fine. However, after the installation I noticed that the system disk is only half of its intended size. I created a 70 GB partition to which I installed Catalina (APFS formatted). After the installation there is the following partition scheme:

1 TB SSD:
- Container disk 1 => 35 GB (APFS Container)
> Catalina...

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Author: spotflight