Country size comparison

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Maryland is about 18 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 5.62% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (4.7 million fewer people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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