Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 1.3 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 77.41% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (8.1 million more people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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