Svalbard is about 5 times smaller than Norway.

Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 19.16% the size of Norway. Meanwhile, the population of Norway is ~5.6 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Norway vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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