Country size comparison
compared to
Svalbard is around the same size as West Virginia.
West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 99.49% the size of West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (1.9 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
Tip:
This to-scale comparison of
West Virginia
vs.
Svalbard
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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