Country size comparison

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Iceland is about 4.4 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 22.87% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (10.1 million fewer people live in Iceland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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