Country size comparison

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Svalbard is about 1.7 times smaller than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 60.24% the size of Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (354,677 fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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