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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 include Longyearbyen and Bear Island.

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, is the largest populated area, and capital of the region of Svalbard. The settlement is generally regarded as the northernmost town in the world as well as the most easily accessed frontier in the Arctic, and is an ideal base for the greater exploration of Svalbard and the high Arctic.

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, Norwegian Bjørnøya, is an islet in the Arctic Ocean, between and Svalbard. The island has no permanent population, except some meteorology crew.

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is the second-largest settlement in Svalbard, , with about 300 inhabitants. A coal mining town, the settlement is almost entirely made up of Russian nationals.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Ny-Ålesund and Pyramiden.

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is a settlement in in the west of the island of in Svalbard. It is situated on the Brøgger peninsula and on the shore of the bay of .

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is in Svalbard. It is a Russian mining settlement that was abandoned in 1998 and lies northeast across Isfjorden from . A small Russian contingent is now based on-site to prevent vandalism and take care of basic infrastructure needs.

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is 's largest national park with an area of 8,504 km2. The park comprises most of the southern third of Spitsbergen in Svalbard.

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is a national park in Svalbard. The park is made up of Prince Karl's Forland and the sea around it and borders the and it borders the Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park.

is a national park protecting the inner part of Wijdefjorden, Svalbard's longest fjord.
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Svalbard

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
.sj
Internet domain
47
Open­Street­Map ID
node 269195852
Open­Street­Map feature
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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: “Spitsbergen”
  • 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”
  • Arabic: “سڤالبارد”
  • 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”
  • Azerbaijani: “Svalbard”
  • Balinese: “Kapuloan Svalbard”
  • Basque: “Svalbard eta Jan Mayen uharteak”
  • Basque: “Svalbard”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Шпіцберген”
  • Belarusian: “Свальбард”
  • 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: “Illes Svalbard”
  • 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: “Svalbard”
  • Chinese: “冷岸群島”
  • Chinese: “司瓦爾巴特”
  • Chinese: “司瓦爾巴特群島”
  • Chinese: “斯匹次卑尔根群岛”
  • Chinese: “斯匹茨卑爾根”
  • Chinese: “斯匹茲卑爾根群島”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦尔巴”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦尔巴和扬马延”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦尔巴德群岛”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦尔巴特和扬马延”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦尔巴特群岛”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦巴”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦爾巴”
  • Chinese: “斯瓦爾巴群島”
  • Chuvash: “Шпицберген”
  • Cornish: “Svalbard”
  • Croatian: “Svalbard i Jan Mayen”
  • Croatian: “Svalbard”
  • Czech: “Špicberky a Jan Mayen”
  • Czech: “Špicberky”
  • Czech: “Svalbard”
  • Danish: “Svalbard og Jan Mayen”
  • Danish: “Svalbard”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Svalbard”
  • Dutch: “Spitsbergen Archipel”
  • Dutch: “Spitsbergen en Jan Mayen”
  • Dutch: “Spitsbergen”
  • Dutch: “Spitzbergen”
  • Dutch: “Svalbard”
  • Dzongkha: “སྭཱལ་བྷརྡ་ ཨེནཌ་ ཇཱན་མ་ཡེན”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سفالبارد”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سڤالبارد”
  • Erzya: “Шпицберген Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Spicbergoj”
  • Esperanto: “Spitsbergen”
  • Esperanto: “Svalbard”
  • 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: “Špitsbergen”
  • Finnish: “Svalbard ja Jan Mayen”
  • Finnish: “Svalbard”
  • French: “Archipel de Svalbard”
  • French: “Svalbard et Île Jan Mayen”
  • French: “Svalbard et Jan Mayen”
  • French: “Svalbard”
  • Galician: “Illas Svalbard”
  • Galician: “Spitzbergen”
  • Galician: “Svalbard e Jan Mayen”
  • Galician: “Svalbard”
  • Georgian: “სვალბარდი”
  • Georgian: “სვალბარდის არქიპელაგი”
  • Georgian: “სვალბორდი”
  • Georgian: “შპიცბერგენი და იან-მაიენი”
  • Georgian: “შპიცბერგენი”
  • Georgian: “შპიცბერგენის არქიპელაგი”
  • German: “NO-21”
  • German: “Spitzbergen und Jan Mayen”
  • German: “Spitzbergen”
  • German: “Svalbard”
  • Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος Σβάλμπαρντ”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Σβάλμπαρντ και Γιαν Μάγεν”
  • Greek: “Σβάλμπαρντ και Γιαν Μαγιέν”
  • Greek: “Σβάλμπαρντ”
  • Greek: “Σφάλμπαρντ”
  • Gujarati: “સ્વાલબર્ડ અને જેન મેયન”
  • Gujarati: “સ્વાલબાર્ડ”
  • Haitian: “Svalbard”
  • Hausa: “Svalbard da Jan Mayen”
  • Hebrew: “סבאלבארד”
  • Hebrew: “סבאלברד ויאן מאיין”
  • Hebrew: “סבאלברד”
  • Hebrew: “סבלברד”
  • Hebrew: “סוולבארד וז׳אן מאיין”
  • Hebrew: “סוולבארד”
  • Hebrew: “שפיצברגן”
  • 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”
  • Hungarian: “Svalbard-szigetek”
  • Hungarian: “Svalbard”
  • 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: “Kepulauan Svalbard”
  • 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: “スヴァーヴァル諸島”
  • Japanese: “スヴァールバル”
  • 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”
  • Japanese: “スバールバル諸島”
  • Japanese: “スピッツベルゲン諸島”
  • Javanese: “Svalbard lan Jan Mayen”
  • Javanese: “Svalbard”
  • Kalaallisut: “Svalbard aamma Jan Mayen”
  • Kalaallisut: “Svalbard”
  • Kalaallisut: “Svalbardi”
  • Kalmyk: “Свалбард”
  • Kalmyk: “Шпицбергенин Арл”
  • Kalmyk: “Шпицбергенин Арлс”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ವಾಲ್ಬಾರ್ಡ್ ಮತ್ತು ಜಾನ್ ಮಾಯೆನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ವಾಲ್ಬಾರ್ಡ್ ಮತ್ತು ಜಾನ್ ಮೆಯನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ವಾಲ್ಬಾರ್ಡ್”
  • Kashmiri: “سَوالبریڑ تہٕ جان ماییڑ”
  • Kazakh: “Свалбард”
  • 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”
  • Korean: “스피츠베르겐 제도”
  • Korean: “스피트스베르겐 제도”
  • Lao: “ສະວາບາ ແລະ ແຢນ ມາເຢນ”
  • Latin: “Svalbard”
  • Latin: “Svalbardum”
  • Latvian: “SJM”
  • Latvian: “Špicbergena”
  • Latvian: “Svalbāra un Jana Majena sala”
  • Latvian: “Svalbāra”
  • Ligurian: “Isoe Svalbard”
  • Limburgan: “Sjpitsberge”
  • Limburgan: “Spitsberge”
  • Limburgan: “Svalbard”
  • Lingala: “Svalbard mpé Jan Mayen”
  • Literary Chinese: “司瓦爾巴特群島”
  • Lithuanian: “Svalbardas ir Janas Majenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Svalbardas”
  • Lithuanian: “Svalbardo ir Jan Majen salos”
  • Low German: “Spitsbargen”
  • Low German: “Spitzbargen”
  • Low German: “Spitzbergen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Svalbard”
  • Luxembourgish: “Spitzbergen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Svalbard a Jan Mayen”
  • Macedonian: “Свалбард и Јан Мајен”
  • Macedonian: “Свалбард”
  • Macedonian: “Шпицберген”
  • 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: “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: “Свальбард”
  • Ossetian: “Шпицберген”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਵਾਲਬਰਡ ਅਤੇ ਜਾਨ ਮਾਯੇਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Svalbard”
  • Persian: “اسوالبارد”
  • Persian: “جزایر سفالبار”
  • Persian: “سفالبار”
  • Persian: “سوالبارد و یان ماین”
  • Persian: “سوالبارد”
  • Piemontese: “Ìsole Svalbard”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Swaalbard Ailens”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Swaalbard”
  • Polish: “Norwegia”
  • Polish: “Svalbard i Jan Mayen”
  • Polish: “Svalbard”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago de svalbard”
  • Portuguese: “Esvalbarda”
  • Portuguese: “Svalbard e Jan Mayen”
  • Portuguese: “Svalbard”
  • Pushto: “سوالبارد او جان ميين”
  • Pushto: “سوالباﺭد”
  • Pushto: “سوالبرد”
  • Quechua: “Svalbard y Jan Mayen”
  • Romanian: “Insula Svalbard”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Svalbard”
  • Romanian: “Svalbard și Jan Mayen”
  • Romanian: “Svalbard”
  • Romansh: “Svalbard e Jan Mayen”
  • Romansh: “Svalbard”
  • Russian: “Грумант”
  • Russian: “Свалбард”
  • Russian: “Свальбард”
  • Russian: “Спитсберген”
  • 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”
  • Serbian: “Шпицбершка острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Špicberška ostrva”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Svalbard”
  • Shan: “သဝႃးလ်ပၢတ်ႇ”
  • Sicilian: “Svalbard”
  • Sindhi: “سوالبارڊ ۽ جان ماین”
  • Sinhala: “ස්වාල්බාඩ්”
  • Sinhala: “ස්වෙල්බර්ඩ් සහ ජේන් මයේන්”
  • Slovak: “Špicbergy”
  • Slovak: “Svalbard a Jan Mayen”
  • Slovak: “Svalbard”
  • Slovenian: “Koničaste gore”
  • Slovenian: “Priostrene gore”
  • Slovenian: “Špicbergi”
  • Slovenian: “Spitsbergen”
  • Slovenian: “Spitsbergi”
  • Slovenian: “Spitzbergen”
  • Slovenian: “Spitzbergi”
  • Slovenian: “Svalbard in Jan Mayen”
  • Slovenian: “Svalbard”
  • Slovenian: “Svalbarði fundinn”
  • Somali: “Jasiiradda Sfaldbaad & Jaan Mayen”
  • Somali: “Svalbard”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago Svalbard”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago Svalbard”
  • Spanish: “Islas Spitzberg”
  • Spanish: “Islas Svalbard”
  • Spanish: “Spitzbergen”
  • 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: “ஸ்வல்பர்ட்”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்வல்பார்டு & ஜான் மேயன்”
  • Tatar: “Шпицберген һәм Ян-Майен”
  • Tatar: “Шпицберген”
  • Telugu: “స్వాల్‌బార్డ్ మరియు జాన్ మాయెన్”
  • Telugu: “స్వాల్బార్డ్”
  • Telugu: “స్వాల్‌బార్డ్”
  • Thai: “สฟาลบาร์”
  • Thai: “สฟาลบาร์ด”
  • Thai: “สฟาลบาร์และยานไมเอน”
  • Thai: “สวาลบาร์”
  • Thai: “สวาลบาร์ด”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะสฟาลบาร์”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะสฟาลบาร์ด”
  • 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: “Свальбар”
  • Ukrainian: “Свальбард”
  • Ukrainian: “Шпіцберген та Ян-Маєн”
  • Ukrainian: “Шпіцберген”
  • Ukrainian: “Шпіцберґен”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Spitzbergen”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Svalbard”
  • Urdu: “Svalbard”
  • Urdu: “سوالبارد”
  • Urdu: “سوالبرڈ اور جان ماین”
  • Uzbek: “Shpitsbergen va Yan-Mayen”
  • Uzbek: “Shpitsbergen”
  • Venetian: “Svalbard”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Svalbard”
  • Vietnamese: “Svalbard và Jan Mayen”
  • Vietnamese: “Svalbard”
  • Vlaams: “Spitsbergn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Esvalbard”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Svalbard”
  • 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: “斯瓦爾巴群島”
  • Zeeuws: “Spitsberg’n”
  • Zeeuws: “Spitsbergen”
  • Zeeuws: “Spitsberh’n”
  • Zeeuws: “Spitsberhen”
  • Zeeuws: “Svalbard”
  • Zulu: “I-Svalbard ne-Jan Mayen”
  • “ma Suwala”
  • “Svalbard”
  • “Svalbards”

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