Svalbard is about 9 times smaller than Madagascar.

Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 10.57% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (28.2 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Madagascar vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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