Country size comparison

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Bulgaria is about 4.1 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, making Bulgaria 24.62% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.6 million people (4.2 million fewer people live in Bulgaria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Bulgaria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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