Quality of life comparison
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If you lived in Malta instead of Svalbard, you would:
Geography
see 94.5% less coastline
Svalbard has a total of 3,587 km of coastline. In Malta, that number is 197 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
Malta: At a glance
Malta is a sovereign country in Europe, with a total land area of approximately 316 sq km. Great Britain formally acquired possession of Malta in 1814. The island staunchly supported the UK through both world wars and remained in the Commonwealth when it became independent in 1964; a decade later it declared itself a republic. Since about the mid-1980s, the island has transformed itself into a freight transshipment point, a financial center, and a tourist destination. Malta became an EU member in May 2004 and began using the euro as currency in 2008.
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