Svalbard is about 38 times smaller than Algeria.

Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 2.61% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (44.2 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Algeria vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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