Country size comparison

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New York is about 3.7 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 27.16% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (8.9 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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