Country size comparison
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Sweden is about 3.9 times bigger than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 288% larger than Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Sweden).
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