Flag: Svalbard & Jan Mayen 🇸🇯
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The flag of Svalbard and Jan Mayen — the Norwegian territories in the Arctic Ocean. Svalbard is home to more polar bears than people and features the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (a backup of the world's crop diversity in a permafrost bunker).

The Svalbard Treaty uniquely allows citizens of 46 signatory nations to live and work there without visa requirements. Used for Arctic geography, polar bear conservation, the Global Seed Vault, climate change impacts on Arctic ecosystems, and Norway's Arctic territorial governance.