Svalbard is about 2.9 times smaller than Missouri.

Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 34.78% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (6.0 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Missouri vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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