Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 2 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 49.18% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (9.5 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
Tip:
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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