New Zealand is about 1.7 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 59.7% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (5.4 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. New Zealand uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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