Svalbard is about 18 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 5.62% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (113.7 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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