Rhode Island is about 23 times smaller than Svalbard.

Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 4.36% the size of Svalbard. Meanwhile, the population of Svalbard is ~2,926 people (1.0 million more people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Svalbard vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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