Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 1.3 times smaller than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km,
while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making
Svalbard 79.56% the size of South Carolina.
Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people
(4.6 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
South Carolina
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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