Country size comparison
compared to
Gambia is about 6 times smaller than Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone is approximately 71,740 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 15.75% the size of Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, the population of Sierra Leone is ~8.7 million people (6.3 million fewer people live in Gambia).
This to-scale comparison of
Sierra Leone
vs.
Gambia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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