Svalbard is about 18 times smaller than Colombia.

Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 5.45% the size of Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (49.1 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Colombia vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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