Country size comparison

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Virginia is about 4.4 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 22.77% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (2.5 million fewer people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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