Country size comparison

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Svalbard is about 2 times bigger than Lesotho.

Lesotho is approximately 30,355 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 104% larger than Lesotho. Meanwhile, the population of Lesotho is ~2.2 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Lesotho vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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