Svalbard is around the same size as Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 94.57% the size of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (23.2 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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