Country size comparison

compared to

South Carolina is about 6 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 17.32% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (5.9 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. South Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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