Country size comparison
compared to
Netherlands is about 1.5 times smaller than Svalbard.
Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km,
while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making
Netherlands 66.96% the size of Svalbard.
Meanwhile, the population of Svalbard is ~2,926 people
(17.4 million more people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of
Svalbard
vs.
Netherlands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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