Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 3 times smaller than Syria.
Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 33.1% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (21.6 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Syria
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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