Country size comparison
compared to
Gambia is about 24 times smaller than Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is approximately 266,000 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 4.25% the size of Western Sahara. Meanwhile, the population of Western Sahara is ~652,271 people (1.8 million more people live in Gambia).
This to-scale comparison of
Western Sahara
vs.
Gambia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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