Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 1.4 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 69.04% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (27.9 million fewer people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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