Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 4.3 times smaller than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 23.08% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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