Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 4.3 times smaller than Gabon.
Gabon is approximately 267,667 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 23.18% the size of Gabon. Meanwhile, the population of Gabon is ~2.3 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Gabon
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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