Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 3.1 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 211% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (7.4 million more people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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