Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 1.2 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 81.65% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (57.8 million fewer people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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