Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 1.7 times smaller than Kentucky.
Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km,
while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making
Svalbard 60.3% the size of Kentucky.
Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people
(4.3 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Kentucky
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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