Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 9 times smaller than Botswana.
Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 10.67% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Botswana
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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