Svalbard is about 1.9 times smaller than Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 53.45% the size of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (12.7 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Pennsylvania vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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