Svalbard is about 2.2 times smaller than Arkansas.

Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 46.01% the size of Arkansas. Meanwhile, the population of Arkansas is ~2.9 million people (2.9 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Arkansas vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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