Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is around the same size as Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 96.06% the size of Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Latvia
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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