Svalbard is about 2 times smaller than Mississippi.

Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 51.07% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Mississippi vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

Share this