Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 3.7 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 268% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (8.9 million fewer people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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