That's funny. I'd have thought most maps are based on the standard Mercator projection, which is infamous for exaggerating sizes more the farther north you go?

That's funny. I'd have thought most maps are based on the standard Mercator projection, which is infamous for exaggerating sizes more the farther north you go? (The commonly-used blatant example used is how Greenland looks almost as big as Africa on a flat map, but on a globe it's tiny in comparison.) So unless you've seen some weird non-standard map, the north of Sweden probably looks bigger than it ought to, not smaller.