Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 1.2 times smaller than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 86.49% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (8.7 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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