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).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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