Svalbard is about 10 times smaller than Somalia.

Somalia is approximately 637,657 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 9.73% the size of Somalia. Meanwhile, the population of Somalia is ~12.4 million people (12.4 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Somalia vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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