Country size comparison

compared to

Denmark is about 10 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Denmark is approximately 43,094 sq km, making Denmark 9.57% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (4.6 million fewer people live in Denmark).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Denmark uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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