Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 4.3 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 23.33% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (649,345 fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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