Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 6 times smaller than Japan.
Japan is approximately 377,915 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 16.42% the size of Japan. Meanwhile, the population of Japan is ~124.2 million people (124.2 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Japan
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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