Country size comparison

compared to

Norway is about 1.4 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, making Norway 71.91% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Norway).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Norway uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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