Country size comparison
Svalbard
compared to
Ireland
Svalbard is around the same size as Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 88.29% the size of Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (5.3 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
We have positioned the outline of Ireland near the middle of Svalbard.
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This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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