Svalbard is about 20 times smaller than Mali.

Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 5.0% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (20.7 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Mali vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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