Country size comparison

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Greenland is about 4.8 times bigger than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, making Greenland 381% larger than Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (10.4 million fewer people live in Greenland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Greenland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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