Svalbard is about 3.8 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 26.2% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.7 million people (7.7 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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