Svalbard

Svalbard is a group of islands located between the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Greenland Sea, and the Norwegian Sea. The area is sometimes referred to as Spitsbergen, the main island with all the settlements.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Longyearbyen and Bear Island.

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, is the largest populated area, and capital of the region of Svalbard.

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, Norwegian Bjørnøya, is an islet in the…

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is a pint-sized but fascinating open-air…

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Ny-Ålesund and Pyramiden.

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is an unincorporated settlement…

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is in Svalbard. It is a Russian mining…

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is 's largest national park with an area of 8,504 km2.

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is a national park in Svalbard.

is a national park…
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Svalbard

  • Type: Region with 2,640 residents
  • Description: Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean
  • Also known as: “Archipel de Svalbard”, “Archipielago Svalbard”, “Archipiélago Svalbard”, “Arquipélago de svalbard”, “Esvalbarda”, “Illas Svalbard”, “Illes Svalbard”, “Insula Svalbard”, “Insulele Svalbard”, “Islas Spitzberg”, “Islas Svalbard”, “Kepulauan Svalbard”, “Koničaste gore”, “NO-21”, “Norwegia”, “Priostrene gore”, “Quần đảo Svalbard”, “SJM”, “Špicbergena”, “Špicbergi”, “Spicbergoj”, “Špicbergy”, “Špicberška ostrva”, “Spitsberg’n”, “Spitsberge”, “Špitsbergen”, “Spitsbergen Archipel”, “Spitsbergi”, “Spitsberh’n”, “Spitsburgen”, “Spitzbergen Archipelago”, “Spitzbergi”, “Spitzburgen”, “Svaalbard”, “Sval’bard”, “Svalbard and Jan Mayen”, “Svalbard Archipelago”, “Svalbard Island”, “Svalbard Islands”, “Svalbard-szigetek”, “Svalbardi”, “Svalbarði fundinn”, “Svaldbard”, “Swaalbard Ailens”, “Teravmäed”, “Teravmägede saared”, “Teravmägede saarestik”, “Σβάλμπαρντ”, “Σφάλμπαρντ”, “Востраў Шпіцберген”, “Грумант”, “Свальбар”, “Свальбард”, “Спитсберген”, “Шпицбергенин Арл”, “Шпицбергенин Арлс”, “Шпицбершка острва”, “Шпіцберґен”, “სვალბარდი”, “სვალბარდის არქიპელაგი”, “სვალბორდი”, “შპიცბერგენის არქიპელაგი”, “סבאלבארד”, “סבלברד”, “סוולבארד”, “שפיצברגן”, “اسوالبارد”, “جزایر سفالبار”, “سفالبار”, “سوالباﺭد”, “ஸ்வல்பர்ட்”, “สฟาลบาร์ด”, “สวาลบาร์”, “สวาลบาร์ด”, “หมู่เกาะสฟาลบาร์”, “หมู่เกาะสฟาลบาร์ด”, “스피츠베르겐 제도”, “스피트스베르겐 제도”, “スヴァーヴァル諸島”, “スヴァールバル”, “スバールバル諸島”, “スピッツベルゲン諸島”, “挪威屬斯瓦巴及尖棉”, “斯匹次卑尔根群岛”, “斯匹茨卑爾根”, “斯匹茲卑爾根群島”, “斯瓦尔巴岛和扬马延岛”, “斯瓦尔巴德群岛”, “斯瓦尔巴特群岛”, and “斯瓦爾巴”
  • Languages: Norwegian and Russian
  • Categories: archipelago, integral overseas territory, first-level administrative division, terra nullius, and locality
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
78.84° or 78° 50′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
17.84° or 17° 50′ 24″ east
Population
2,640
Area
62,049 km² (23,957 miles²)
Capital
Currency
Krone (NOK)
Phone code
47
Internet domain
.sj
Open­Street­Map ID
node 269195852
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
607072
Wiki­data ID
Q25231
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Svalbard” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Svalbard”
  • Afrikaans: “Spitsbergen en Jan Mayen”
  • Afrikaans: “Svalbard”
  • Albanian: “Svalbard e Jan-Majen”
  • Albanian: “Svalbard”
  • Amharic: “ስቫልባር”
  • Amharic: “ስቫልባርድ እና ጃን ማየን”
  • Angika: “स्वालबार्ड”
  • Arabic: “سفالبارد وجان مايان”
  • Arabic: “سفالبارد وجان ماين”
  • Arabic: “سفالبارد”
  • Aragonese: “Svalbard”
  • Armenian: “Շպիցբերգեն”
  • Armenian: “Սվալբարդ և Յան Մայեն”
  • Arpitan: “Svalbârd”
  • Assamese: “চাভালবাৰ্ড আৰু জন মেয়ন”
  • Asturian: “Svalbard”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şpisbergen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şpitsbergen”
  • Azerbaijani: “Svalbard və Yan-Mayen”
  • Balinese: “Kapuloan Svalbard”
  • Basque: “Svalbard eta Jan Mayen uharteak”
  • Basque: “Svalbard”
  • Belarusian: “Шпіцберген і Ян-Маен”
  • Belarusian: “Шпіцберген”
  • Belarusian: “Шпіцбэрген”
  • Bengali: “স্বালবার্ড ও জান মেয়েন”
  • Bengali: “স্‌ভালবার্দ”
  • Bengali: “স্ভালবার্দ”
  • Bishnupriya: “স্ভালবার্ড”
  • Bosnian: “Svalbard i Jan Majen”
  • Bosnian: “Svalbard”
  • Breton: “Svalbard ha Jan Mayen”
  • Breton: “Svalbard”
  • Bulgarian: “Свалбард и Ян Майен”
  • Bulgarian: “Свалбард”
  • Bulgarian: “Шпицберген”
  • Burmese: “စဗိုလ်ဘတ်နှင့်ဂျန်မေရန်”
  • Catalan: “Svalbard i Jan Mayen”
  • Catalan: “Svalbard”
  • Cebuano: “Svalbard (dapit sa Svalbard and Jan Mayen)”
  • Cebuano: “Svalbard”
  • Central Bikol: “Svalbard”
  • Central Kurdish: “سڤالبارد”
  • Chechen: “Шпицберген а, Ян-Майен а”
  • Chechen: “Шпицберген”
  • Chinese: “冷岸群島”
  • Chinese: “斯尔瓦巴”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦尔巴”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦尔巴和扬马延”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦尔巴特和扬马延”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦巴”
  • Chuvash: “Шпицберген”
  • Cornish: “Svalbard”
  • Croatian: “Svalbard i Jan Mayen”
  • Croatian: “Svalbard”
  • Czech: “Špicberky a Jan Mayen”
  • Czech: “Špicberky”
  • Danish: “Svalbard og Jan Mayen”
  • Danish: “Svalbard”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Svalbard”
  • Dutch: “Spitsbergen en Jan Mayen”
  • Dutch: “Spitsbergen”
  • Dzongkha: “སྭཱལ་བྷརྡ་ ཨེནཌ་ ཇཱན་མ་ཡེན”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سفالبارد”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سڤالبارد”
  • Erzya: “Шпицберген Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Svalbardo kaj Jan-Majen-insulo”
  • Esperanto: “Svalbardo”
  • Estonian: “Svalbard ja Jan Mayen”
  • Estonian: “Svalbard”
  • Ewe: “Svalbard kple Yan Mayen nutome”
  • Faroese: “Svalbard & Jan Mayen”
  • Faroese: “Svalbarð”
  • Finnish: “Huippuvuoret”
  • Finnish: “Svalbard ja Jan Mayen”
  • French: “Svalbard et Île Jan Mayen”
  • French: “Svalbard et Jan Mayen”
  • French: “Svalbard”
  • Galician: “Svalbard e Jan Mayen”
  • Galician: “Svalbard”
  • Georgian: “შპიცბერგენი და იან-მაიენი”
  • Georgian: “შპიცბერგენი”
  • German: “Spitzbergen und Jan Mayen”
  • German: “Spitzbergen”
  • German: “Svalbard”
  • Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος Σβάλμπαρντ”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Σβάλμπαρντ και Γιαν Μάγεν”
  • Greek: “Σβάλμπαρντ και Γιαν Μαγιέν”
  • Gujarati: “સ્વાલબર્ડ અને જેન મેયન”
  • Gujarati: “સ્વાલબાર્ડ”
  • Haitian: “Svalbard”
  • Hausa: “Svalbard da Jan Mayen”
  • Hebrew: “סבאלברד ויאן מאיין”
  • Hebrew: “סבאלברד”
  • Hebrew: “סוולבארד וז׳אן מאיין”
  • Hindi: “स्वालबर्ड और जान मायेन”
  • Hindi: “स्वालबार्ड और जान मायेन”
  • Hindi: “स्वालबार्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Spitzbergák és Jan Mayen-szigetek”
  • Hungarian: “Spitzbergák”
  • Hungarian: “Svalbard és Jan Mayen”
  • Icelandic: “Svalbarði og Jan Mayen”
  • Icelandic: “Svalbarði”
  • Ido: “Svalbard”
  • Igbo: “Svalbard & Jan Mayen”
  • Iloko: “Svalbard”
  • Inari Sami: “Čokkeväärih”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Svalbard dan Jan Mayen”
  • Indonesian: “Svalbard”
  • Interlingua: “Svalbard e Jan Mayen”
  • Interlingue: “Svalbard”
  • Irish: “Oileánra Svalbard”
  • Irish: “Svalbard agus Jan Mayen”
  • Italian: “Isole Svalbard”
  • Italian: “Svalbard e Jan Mayen”
  • Italian: “Svalbard”
  • Japanese: “スヴァールバル諸島”
  • Japanese: “スバールバル諸島・ヤンマイエン島”
  • Javanese: “Svalbard lan Jan Mayen”
  • Javanese: “Svalbard”
  • Kalaallisut: “Svalbard aamma Jan Mayen”
  • Kalaallisut: “Svalbard”
  • Kalmyk: “Свалбард”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ವಾಲ್ಬಾರ್ಡ್ ಮತ್ತು ಜಾನ್ ಮಾಯೆನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ವಾಲ್ಬಾರ್ಡ್ ಮತ್ತು ಜಾನ್ ಮೆಯನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ವಾಲ್ಬಾರ್ಡ್”
  • Kashmiri: “سَوالبریڑ تہٕ جان ماییڑ”
  • Kazakh: “Суалбард”
  • Kazakh: “Шпицберген және Ян-Майен”
  • Kazakh: “Шпицберген”
  • Khmer: “ស្វាលបាដ និង ហ្សង់ម៉ាយេន”
  • Kirghiz: “Шпицберген жана Ян-Майен”
  • Kirghiz: “Шпицберген”
  • Komi: “Шпицберген”
  • Korean: “스발바르 제도”
  • Korean: “스발바르”
  • Korean: “스발바르제도-얀마웬섬”
  • Lao: “ສະວາບາ ແລະ ແຢນ ມາເຢນ”
  • Latin: “Svalbard”
  • Latin: “Svalbardum”
  • Latvian: “Svalbāra un Jana Majena sala”
  • Latvian: “Svalbāra”
  • Ligurian: “Isoe Svalbard”
  • Limburgan: “Sjpitsberge”
  • Lingala: “Svalbard mpé Jan Mayen”
  • Literary Chinese: “司瓦爾巴特”
  • Literary Chinese: “司瓦爾巴特群島”
  • Lithuanian: “Svalbardas ir Janas Majenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Svalbardas”
  • Lithuanian: “Svalbardo ir Jan Majen salos”
  • Livvi: “Svalbard”
  • Low German: “Spitsbargen”
  • Low German: “Spitzbargen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Svalbard”
  • Luxembourgish: “Spitzbergen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Svalbard a Jan Mayen”
  • Macedonian: “Свалбард и Јан Мајен”
  • Macedonian: “Шпицбершки Острови”
  • Malay: “Svalbard dan Jan Mayen”
  • Malay: “Svalbard”
  • Malayalam: “സ്വാൽബാഡും ജാൻ മായേനും”
  • Malayalam: “സ്വാൽബാർഡ്”
  • Maltese: “Svalbard u Jan Mayen”
  • Manx: “Svalbard”
  • Marathi: “स्वालबर्ड आणि जान मायेन”
  • Marathi: “स्वालबार्ड”
  • Mazanderani: “سوالبارد”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Svalbard”
  • Mongolian: “Свалбард ба Ян Майен”
  • Nepali: “सभाल्बार्ड र जान मायेन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Svalbard”
  • Northern Sami: “Svalbárda ja Jan Mayen”
  • Northern Sami: “Svalbárda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Svalbard og Jan Mayen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Svalbard”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Svalbard og Jan Mayen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Svalbard”
  • Norwegian: “Svalbard og Jan Mayen”
  • Norwegian: “Svalbard”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Svalbard”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Scearpbeorgas”
  • Oriya: “ସାଲବାର୍ଡ ଏବଂ ଜାନ୍‌ ମାୟେନ୍‌”
  • Ossetian: “Шпицберген”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਵਾਲਬਰਡ ਅਤੇ ਜਾਨ ਮਾਯੇਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Svalbard”
  • Persian: “سوالبارد و یان ماین”
  • Persian: “سوالبارد”
  • Piemontese: “Ìsole Svalbard”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Swaalbard”
  • Polish: “Svalbard i Jan Mayen”
  • Polish: “Svalbard”
  • Portuguese: “Svalbard e Jan Mayen”
  • Portuguese: “Svalbard”
  • Pushto: “سوالبارد او جان ميين”
  • Pushto: “سوالبرد”
  • Quechua: “Svalbard y Jan Mayen”
  • Romanian: “Svalbard și Jan Mayen”
  • Romanian: “Svalbard”
  • Romansh: “Svalbard e Jan Mayen”
  • Romansh: “Svalbard”
  • Russian: “Шпицберген и Ян-Майен”
  • Russian: “Шпицберген”
  • Samogitian: “Svalbards”
  • Scots: “Svalbard”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Svalbard is Jan Mayen”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Svalbard”
  • Serbian: “Свалбард и Јан Мајен”
  • Serbian: “Свалбард”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Svalbard”
  • Shan: “သဝႃးလ်ပၢတ်ႇ”
  • Sicilian: “Svalbard”
  • Sindhi: “سوالبارڊ ۽ جان ماین”
  • Sinhala: “ස්වාල්බාඩ්”
  • Sinhala: “ස්වෙල්බර්ඩ් සහ ජේන් මයේන්”
  • Slovak: “Svalbard a Jan Mayen”
  • Slovak: “Svalbard”
  • Slovenian: “Svalbard in Jan Mayen”
  • Slovenian: “Svalbard”
  • Somali: “Jasiiradda Sfaldbaad & Jaan Mayen”
  • Somali: “Svalbard”
  • Spanish: “Svalbard y Jan Mayen”
  • Spanish: “Svalbard”
  • Sundanese: “Svalbard”
  • Swahili: “Svalbard na Jan Mayen”
  • Swahili: “Svalbard”
  • Swedish: “Svalbard och Jan Mayen”
  • Swedish: “Svalbard”
  • Tagalog: “Svalbard”
  • Tajik: “Шпитсберген ва Ян Майен”
  • Tamil: “சுவல்பார்டு”
  • Tamil: “சுவால்பார்டு”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்வல்பார்டு & ஜான் மேயன்”
  • Tatar: “Шпицберген һәм Ян-Майен”
  • Tatar: “Шпицберген”
  • Telugu: “స్వాల్‌బార్డ్ మరియు జాన్ మాయెన్”
  • Telugu: “స్వాల్‌బార్డ్”
  • Telugu: “స్వాల్బార్డ్”
  • Thai: “สฟาลบาร์”
  • Thai: “สฟาลบาร์และยานไมเอน”
  • Tigrinya: “ስቫልባርድን ጃን ማየንን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Sivolopāti mo Sani Maieni”
  • Turkish: “Svalbard ve Jan Mayen”
  • Turkish: “Svalbard”
  • Turkmen: “Şpisbergen we Ýan-Maýen”
  • Udmurt: “Шпицберген”
  • Uighur: “سىۋالبارد ۋە يان مايېن”
  • Ukrainian: “Шпіцберген та Ян-Маєн”
  • Ukrainian: “Шпіцберген”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Svalbard”
  • Urdu: “سوالبارد”
  • Urdu: “سوالبرڈ اور جان ماین”
  • Uzbek: “Shpitsbergen va Yan-Mayen”
  • Uzbek: “Shpitsbergen”
  • Venetian: “Svalbard”
  • Vietnamese: “Svalbard và Jan Mayen”
  • Vietnamese: “Svalbard”
  • Vlaams: “Spitsbergn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Esvalbard”
  • Welsh: “Svalbard a Jan Mayen”
  • Welsh: “Svalbard”
  • Western Frisian: “Spitsbergen en Jan Mayen”
  • Western Frisian: “Spitsbergen”
  • Western Panjabi: “سوالبارد”
  • Wolof: “Swalbaar ak Jan Mayen”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯瓦尔巴群岛”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯瓦尔白勒特群岛”
  • Yoruba: “Svalbard & Jan Mayen”
  • Yoruba: “Svalbard”
  • Yue Chinese: “冷岸群島”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯瓦爾巴群島”
  • Zeeuws: “Spitsberhen”
  • Zulu: “I-Svalbard ne-Jan Mayen”
  • “ma Suwala”
  • “Svalbard”

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