Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 17 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 5.85% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.6 million people (4.0 million more people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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