Svalbard is about 1.2 times smaller than Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 86.49% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (8.7 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Sierra Leone vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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