Country size comparison

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New Caledonia is about 24 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while New Caledonia is approximately 18,575 sq km, making New Caledonia 4.13% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (10.2 million fewer people live in New Caledonia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. New Caledonia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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