Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 1.4 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 70.62% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (1.9 million fewer people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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