Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 17 times smaller than Mauritania.
Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 6.02% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (4.2 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Mauritania
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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