Tiny? It's quite a bit larger than California.

That's like saying Alaska is larger than California. It's not relevant.

(Also, unlike the claim that Alaska is larger than California, yours isn't even true... Sweden is, geographically, 105% of the size of California.)

447/403 = 1.05? Maybe you should check your calculator. Not sure how Alaska is relevant.

Another example for you: people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus can easily recognize other people from these countries (but we cannot recognize for sure what country exactly).