Country size comparison

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South Africa is about 108 times bigger than Gambia.

Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, while South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, making South Africa 10,688% larger than Gambia. Meanwhile, the population of Gambia is ~2.4 million people (55.1 million more people live in South Africa).
This to-scale comparison of Gambia vs. South Africa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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