Country size comparison

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Sweden is around the same size as Spain.

Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 89.1% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (36.7 million fewer people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Spain vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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