Country size comparison
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Netherlands is about 11 times smaller than Sweden.
Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 9.23% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (6.9 million more people live in Netherlands).
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