Country size comparison

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Kuwait is about 25 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 3.96% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (7.4 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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