Svalbard is about 6 times smaller than Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 15.88% the size of Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, the population of Zimbabwe is ~15.1 million people (15.1 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of Zimbabwe vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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