Country size comparison

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Svalbard is about 276 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 0.36% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (142.0 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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