Sweden

Facts

What the numbers say about Sweden

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 38.1× the size of Sweden.
• Sweden ranks 58th of 239 by area but only 87th of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 24 people per km², Sweden is the 143rd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 62°N is drawn about 4.7× too large in area, so Sweden looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Sweden's main territory stretches about 1,520 km north to south and 655 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 447,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 446,000 km², to within 2%.

How Sweden measures up

Sweden holds 1.9% of the land area and 1.4% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Northern Europe it is the 1st largest of 14.

Where Sweden sits

• Sweden's centre lies at 62.4°N, 16.3°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 6,940 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 55°N to 69°N, about 1,520 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Sweden had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Sweden would have 558.8 million people. It has 10.6 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Sweden would have 1.7 million people. It has 10.6 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 32.3 million.

Compare Sweden

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