Country size comparison
compared to
California is around the same size as Sweden.
Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 89.69% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (26.8 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Sweden
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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