Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 1.9 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 51.47% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (26.0 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
North Korea
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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