Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is about 1.6 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km,
while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making
Svalbard 60.5% the size of Virginia.
Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people
(8.0 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of
Virginia
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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