Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 20 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 5.09% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (57.5 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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