Country size comparison
compared to
California is around the same size as Sweden.
Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 89.69% the size of Sweden.
Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people
(26.8 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Sweden
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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