Svalbard is about 125 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 0.8% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (26.1 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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