Svalbard is about 8 times smaller than Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan is approximately 488,100 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 12.71% the size of Turkmenistan. Meanwhile, the population of Turkmenistan is ~5.6 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Turkmenistan vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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