Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 4.4 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 338% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (6.1 million more people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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