Country size comparison
compared to
Gambia is about 13 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km,
while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making
Gambia 7.85% the size of Illinois.
Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people
(10.4 million fewer people live in Gambia).
This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Gambia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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