Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 1.6 times smaller than South Korea.
South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 62.22% the size of South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (51.8 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
South Korea
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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