Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 2.3 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making
Svalbard 42.88% the size of Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(3.0 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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