Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 4 times bigger than Louisiana.

Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 299% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (6.0 million more people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Louisiana vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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