Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 37 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 2.71% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (10.2 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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