Country size comparison

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Svalbard is about 9 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Svalbard is approximately 62,045 sq km, making Svalbard 11.25% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (68.3 million fewer people live in Svalbard).
This to-scale comparison of France vs. Svalbard uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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