Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 7 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 15.36% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (37.3 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
Tip:
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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