Country size comparison

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France is about 1.2 times bigger than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 22% larger than Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (57.8 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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