Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 11 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 9.51% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (38.3 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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