- ISO 3166
SJ- Main language + region
nb-SJ- Currency
- NOK · Norwegian Krone
- Region
- not grouped
Svalbard & Jan Mayen
Svalbard & Jan Mayen has 2.9K people. Norwegian Bokmål is the most widely spoken language at 51%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Norwegian Bokmål is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to nb-SJ.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
—
No World Bank internet estimate for this territory, so the online market cannot be sized here. CLDR puts the population at 2.9K.
Income per person
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GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
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No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
2
Norwegian Bokmål 51% · Russian 41%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
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Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
100%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Svalbard & Jan Mayen
share of 2.9K people
- Norwegian Bokmålofficial51%1.5K
- Russian41%1.2K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Norwegian Bokmål in 2 territories and 5.5M speakers in total; Svalbard & Jan Mayen holds 0% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Norwegian Bokmål profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (nb-SJ).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21. april 2026
Short: 21.04.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 234,56 kr
1,234.56 in NOK · Norwegian Krone