Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is around the same size as Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km,
while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making
Svalbard 96.06% the size of Latvia.
Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people
(1.8 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Latvia
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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