Svalbard is about 15 times smaller than Tanzania.

Tanzania is approximately 947,300 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 6.55% the size of Tanzania. Meanwhile, the population of Tanzania is ~63.9 million people (63.8 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Tanzania vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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