Svalbard is about 1.9 times smaller than Malawi.

Malawi is approximately 118,484 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 52.37% the size of Malawi. Meanwhile, the population of Malawi is ~22.2 million people (22.2 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Malawi vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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