Country size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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