Country size comparison

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