Country size comparison

compared to

Australia is about 17 times bigger than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 1,619% larger than Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (15.7 million more people live in Australia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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