Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 38 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 2.63% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (131.5 million fewer people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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