Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 9 times smaller than Botswana.
Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km,
while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making
Svalbard 10.67% the size of Botswana.
Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people
(2.4 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Botswana
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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