Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 17 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 5.82% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (15.7 million fewer people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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