Country size comparison

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Alabama is about 3.4 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, making Alabama 29.19% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (5.7 million fewer people live in Alabama).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Alabama uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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