Country size comparison
compared to
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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