Country size comparison

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Svalbard is about 1.9 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 52.76% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (6.2 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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