Country size comparison

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Sweden is about 4.4 times bigger than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, making Sweden 339% larger than Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (2.5 million more people live in Sweden).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Sweden uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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