Country size comparison
compared to
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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