Svalbard is about 161 times smaller than Canada.

Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 0.62% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people (38.2 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Canada vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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