Country size comparison

compared to

Svalbard is about 11 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 9.51% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (38.3 million fewer people live in Svalbard).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.