Gambia is about 13 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Gambia is approximately 11,300 sq km, making Gambia 7.81% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (632,952 fewer people live in Gambia).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Gambia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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