Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 1.5 times smaller than Svalbard.
Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 66.53% the size of Svalbard. Meanwhile, the population of Svalbard is ~2,926 people (8.5 million more people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of
Svalbard
vs.
Switzerland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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