Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 2.8 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 36.31% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (10.3 million fewer people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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