Country size comparison
compared to
Gambia is about 108 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 0.93% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (55.1 million fewer people live in Gambia).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Gambia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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