Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 4.4 times bigger than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 337% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (10.1 million more people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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