Gambia

Facts

What the numbers say about Gambia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 1,617× the size of Gambia.
• Gambia ranks 141st of 237 by population but only 167th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 251 people per km², Gambia is the 27th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Gambia lies at 13°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
• Laid out flat, Gambia's main territory stretches about 84 km north to south and 326 km east to west.
• Our measured 10,500 km² is 7.1% below Wikidata's official figure of 11,300 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

How Gambia measures up

Gambia holds 0.0% of the land area and 0.2% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Western Africa it is the 15th largest of 16.

Where Gambia sits

• Gambia's centre lies at 13.5°N, 15.4°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 1,500 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 13°N to 14°N, about 80 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Gambia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Gambia would have 13.2 million people. It has 2.6 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Gambia would have 39,000 people. It has 2.6 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 760,000.

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