Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 4.8 times smaller than Greenland.

Greenland is approximately 2,166,086 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 20.79% the size of Greenland. Meanwhile, the population of Greenland is ~56,831 people (10.5 million more people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greenland vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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